Don’t waste your time thinking about who you ought to be, just be content with who you’re becoming.
Content Quotes
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.
A bird in hand is better than two in the bush.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours. (Henry IV)
They need much, whom nothing will content.
