Contentment

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Marcus Aurelius

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cicero

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Alexandre Dumas

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Leo Tolstoy

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus