Quotations on Contentment

Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

~ Titus Maccius Plautus

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

~ Socrates

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

~ Charles Lamb

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

~ Proverbs

- Spanish Proverb

One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

~ Thomas C. Haliburton