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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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.
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.
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a read more
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.
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.
Patience is the key to contentment.
Patience is the key to contentment.