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When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

» Anonymous (-)

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 (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, print-publisher and philosopher

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 (1872-1970) British logician and philosopher [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950]

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

» Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

» François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French Writerand philosopher

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

» Fred A. Allen (1894-1956) American comedian

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

» Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet ['Father Brown', 'Orthodoxy', 'The Everlasting Man']

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.

» Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet ['Father Brown', 'Orthodoxy', 'The Everlasting Man']

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 (1632-1704) English philosopher

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

» Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist

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.

» Plato (427-347) Classical Greek philosopher and mathematician

A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.

» Plutarch (46-120) Greek essayist, historian and biographer

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

» Anonymous (-)

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

» Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, print-publisher and philosopher

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

» Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile

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 (1631-1700) British poet, dramatist and critic

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

» Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet and politician

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