Nothing is more dangerous than contentment without progression.

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one’s ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one’s share.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse. And vice versa.

Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

I didn’t feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

Think back. How many of your sweetest dreams, your greatest hopes, your most cherished desires have come true?On the other hand, how much of what you didn’t really care about wound up happening anyway?What you...

I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were out, like a malarial mosquito.

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

Most beautiful of all was the tarnished gold of the elms, with a little brown in it, a little bronze, a little blue, even– a blue like amethyst, which made them melt into the azure...

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It’s the same with happiness, the very same…happiness doesn’t depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life....

Whatever worldly thing we may covet – zealously striving to obtain and then retain – never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral,...

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

Money brings courage with it but lock contentment behind.

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn’t make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn’t crave for anything apart from your own thing.

Happiness is seeing blessings in disguise, beauty under camouflage, and love amid conflict.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

One way to tell if you’re really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don’t feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or...

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.

Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Happiness isn’t a thing. You can’t go out and get it like a cup of tea. It’s the way you feel about things.

Now I say that a heart that has no grace, and is not instructed in this mystery of contentment, knows of no way to get contentment, but to have his possessions raised up to his...

You think it’s so easy to change yourself. You think it’s so easy, but it’s not True, things don’t stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes...

Whenever the sadness got too much, I would hire a rickshaw and go to the Upper Bazaar. Those little rickshaw trips to the market and back, shopping for lipsticks and imitation Gucci bags and wind-chimes...

That’s an old person’s word,” said Ethan.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment – both begin within

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used...

Inventory:”Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I’d been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and...

Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

All I know is that I’ve wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I’d get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don’t want it anymore,...

No one’s happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that’s enough for me.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December’s as pleasant as May.

We get too comfortable with this orphanage universe, though. We sit in our pews, or behind our pulpits, knowing that our children watch “Christian” cartoons instead of slash films. We vote for the right candidates...

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day’s wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.

The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love.

Maybe I don’t know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.