Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough […]
Content Quotes
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
Seek among men, from beggar to millionaire, one who is contented with his lot, and you will not find one such in a thousand… Today we must buy an overcoat and galoshes, tomorrow a watch and a chain; the next day we must install ourselves in an apartment with a sofa and a bronze lamp; […]
Content so often follows form. It’s not just that we’re nice to the people we like. . . we like the people we’re nice to.
Be content to seem what you really are.
Probably there is nothing in the world so suggestive of serene contentment and perfect bliss as the spectacle of a calf chewing a dishrag, but the nearest approach to it is your reedy tenor, standing apart, in sickly attitude, with head thrown back and eyes uplifted to the moon, piping his distressing solo.
If a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state of which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
Contentment iz a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but kontentment in his world, man wouldn’t be any more of a suckcess than an angleworm iz.
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented.
