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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and read more
Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.