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Quotes about contentment
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. (Addison Joseph)
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. (Addison Joseph)
People are never free of trying to be content. (Addison Joseph)
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. (Addison Joseph)
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. (Addison Joseph)
Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. (Addison Joseph)
Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell (Addison Joseph)
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. (Addison Joseph)
A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. (Addison Joseph)
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. (Addison Joseph)
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody. (Addison Joseph)
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. (Addison Joseph)
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. (Addison Joseph)
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. (Addison Joseph)
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. (Addison Joseph)
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work. (Addison Joseph)
The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless. (Addison Joseph)
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. (Addison Joseph)
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. (Addison Joseph)
To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. (Addison Joseph)
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. (Addison Joseph)
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. (Addison Joseph)
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. (Addison Joseph)
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. (Addison Joseph)
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. (Addison Joseph)
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