Quotes about Contentment
A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.
- Charles Spurgeon
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
- St. Basil
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
- Epicurus
The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.
- Thomas Merton
The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.
- Deepak Chopra
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
- Catherine of Siena
The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
- St. Augustine
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
- Mark Twain
Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.
- Og Mandino
If you own a rug you own too much.
- Jack Kerouac
Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.
- Charles Swindoll