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.

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once read more

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.

The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

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.