The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it...

Nothing is more dangerous than contentment without progression.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men’s sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all...

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was...

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then...

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the...

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

Happiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn’t make you happy, contentment does.

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief–acceptance.

The author speculates that one of the differences between a fallen world and a restored one is that men will be able to say they have had enough and mean exactly that – rather than...

The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there.

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe, that conveyed God’s goodness to you? ‘The pipe is cut off,’ says God, ‘come to me, the...

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people’s lives. It was a life of dignity and...

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.

A year of contentment is worth more than ten of prosperity.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be...

You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.

Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking — it is content.

Perhaps…I could not be content with mere contentment!

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give...

Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: for there are so...

One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;For all such vain wishes in him were preventedBy a fortunate habit of being contented.

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!

…those who deny or oppose these so pleasant delights (of virtue), do so only from jealousy, you may be sure, from the barbarous pleasure of making others as guilty and unhappy as they are. They...

It is our work to cast care, and it is God’s work to take care.

In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on her lap. We were silent. Everything was silent. Only the pulse was audible. Like a...

God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it’s in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.