Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of read more

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for read more

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, read more

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.

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a read more

If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.