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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.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Patience is the key of content.

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Contentment is natural wealth.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment.

A man’s contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

There are enough resources in the world for everyone.

A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment – the Zen sense oof the alone.

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.• Play is the highest level of child development . . . It gives . . . joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world . . . The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life.• Children are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.

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.

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. It is the outcome of my will being brought into subjection to the Divine will. It is the blessed assurance that God does all things well, and is, even now, making all things work together for my ultimate good.

Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

Expectation is contentment – Gain satiety.

Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.