Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Content Quotes
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Familiarity breeds content.
Don’t waste your time thinking about who you ought to be, just be content with who you’re becoming.
By the word ‘happiness’ every human being understands something different. It is a phantom pursued only by weaker minds. The wise man is satisfied by the more modest but much more definite term ‘contentment’. What education should aim at is to save us from a discontented life. (quoting a friend)
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
A contented person is one who enjoys the scenery along the detour.
The Fountain of Content must spring up in the mind; and… he, who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing anything, but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.
If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.