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“If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.”
Dalai Lama
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have”
Socrates
“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.”
Contributed by: Maria Green
Lao Tzu
“He is the richest who is content with the least”
“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.”
G. K. Chesterton
“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.”
Chanakya
“When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.”
Aesop
“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.”
Bertolt Brecht
“He that deserves nothing should be content with anything”
Charles H. Spurgeon
