One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

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.

There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. read more

There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.

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.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.