Patience is the key to contentment.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.

Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.

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.

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.

Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.

Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.

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.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.