Quotes about Contentment
No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.
— Charles Spurgeon
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.
— Charles Spurgeon
The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
— Aristotle
As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.
— Charles Spurgeon
Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
— Epicurus
In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles
— Neil Anderson
Happiness wishes everybody happy.
— Victor Hugo
To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.
— Victor Hugo
THE SUPREME HAPPINESS IN LIFE IS THE CONVICTION THAT WE ARE LOVED V. HUGO
— Victor Hugo
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved
— Victor Hugo
The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.
— Victor Hugo
The poor man shuddered inside, flooded with an angelic bliss; he told himself in a burst of joy that this would last all his life; he
— Victor Hugo