Contentment is natural wealth. [ Socrates ]

Contentment, parent of delight. [ Green ]

Our content is our best having. [ William Shakespeare ]

The harvest song of inward peace. [ Whittier ]

The fewer desires, the more peace. [ Thomas Wilson ]

Oh, may I with myself agree,
And never covet what I see.
Content me with an humble shade,
My passions tamed, my wishes laid;
For, while our wishes wildly roll.
We banish quiet from the soul.
It is thus the busy beat the air,
And misers gather wealth and care. [ Dyer ]

He is well paid that is well satisfied. [ William Shakespeare ]

Contentment opes the source of every joy. [ Beattie ]

The noblest mind the best contentment has. [ Spenser ]

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease.
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. [ Pope ]

For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. [ Herbert ]

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. [ Proverb ]

Contentment is better than divinations or visions. [ Landor ]

From labor health, from health contentment springs. [ Beattie ]

Contentment without money is the philosopher's stone. [ Lichtwer ]

Contentment gives a crown where fortune hath denied it. [ Ford ]

Contentment will make a cottage look as fair as a palace. [ W. Secker ]

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty. [ Socrates ]

In marriage, as in other things, contentment excels wealth. [ Molière ]

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? [ Milton ]

A contented heart is an even sea in the midst of all storms.

I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. [ Bible ]

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth. [ Saadi ]

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress. [ Epictetus ]

Contentment with today's lot makes candidacy for a better lot tomorrow. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. [ Le Sage ]

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune. [ Shenstone ]

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one. [ H. W. Shaw ]

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere. [ Rochefoucauld ]

It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. [ Sir James Mackintosh ]

He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature. [ Socrates ]

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. [ Proverb ]

Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to please others as ourselves. [ Greville ]

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. [ Epictetus ]

Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth. [ Halifax ]

Very few men understand the true significance of contentment; women alone illustrate it. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. [ Buddha ]

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite. [ Hall ]

Another underlying condition of contentment is not to take one's self, or even the affairs of life, too seriously. In looking back, every one can see how much unhappiness has been derived from an over-weening sense of one's importance. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

The failure of his mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence: indolence, decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy. [ Sir Benjamin Brodie ]

A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side. If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]