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A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content. Proverbs Contentment 2,706
My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. William Shakespeare Contentment 237
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. Benjamin Franklin Contentment 227
The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless. Hung Ko Contentment 203
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. Lucretius Contentment 170
I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Philippians 4:11 Bible Contentment 126
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. Socrates Contentment 123
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. Lin Yutang Contentment 122
He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature. Socrates Contentment 117
I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life. David Ignatow Contentment 116
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. Bern Williams Contentment 110
He that is well paid is well satisfied. William Shakespeare Contentment 110
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. Pearl S. Buck Contentment 109
To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this. Teiga Contentment 109
True humility is contentment. Henri Frederic Amiel Contentment 107
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. Plutarch Contentment 96
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. Benjamin Franklin Contentment 95
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Contentment 94
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin Contentment 87
One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has laid down to die, and the grass is already growing over him. Christian BovÃ©e Contentment 85
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. Proverbs Contentment 84
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. FranÃ§ois de La Rochefoucauld Contentment 82
Learn from yesterday live for today look to tomorrow rest this afternoon. Charles M. Schulz Contentment 79
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. John Bunyan Contentment 78
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin Contentment 77
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu Contentment 77
Just tell yourself Duckie youre real quite lucky. Dr. Seuss Contentment 76
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage ... that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. Laurence Sterne Contentment 75
To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power. Vimalia Mcclure Contentment 75
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. Source Unknown Contentment 75
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment. George E. Woodberry Contentment 71
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden Contentment 70
All our discontents spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. Daniel Defoe Contentment 69
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. John Fowles Contentment 68
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. Proverbs Contentment 67
Ari smiled. The sun was shining the weather was great he was eating ice cream and all his dreams were about to come true. James Patterson Contentment 67
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. Plautus Contentment 67
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Christian BovÃ©e Contentment 64
Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. G. K. Chesterton Contentment 64
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. Kahlil Gibran Contentment 61
Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind. Mohammed Contentment 60
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. David Sarnoff Contentment 60
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. Thomas Fuller Contentment 59
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. Plautus Contentment 56
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. George Macdonald Contentment 56
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. Joseph Addison Contentment 56
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. Charles Lamb Contentment 55
For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. St. Paul In Philippians 4:11 Bible Contentment 53
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. John Locke Contentment 52
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. Bertrand Russell Contentment 51

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