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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. -- Charles Lamb
Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them. -- Donita K. Paul
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. -- John Keble
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please. -- Michael Flanders
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day. -- Bliss Carman
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot. -- Robert Southwell
Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed. -- John Milton
He who is contented is rich. -- Laozi
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. -- Joseph Addison
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. -- Lucretius
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. -- James Mackintosh
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. -- Chief Joseph
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. -- Lillie Langtry
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. -- Pearl Bailey
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. -- Frank Herbert
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. -- Horace
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. -- Socrates
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. -- Akhenaton
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice. -- Salmon P. Chase
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me. -- Robert Fulghum
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit. -- Wayne Dyer
Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them. -- John Ortberg
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. -- Frances Wright
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be. -- Ann Plato
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. -- Jack Dee
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. -- Thomas Hobbes
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. -- Nikola Tesla
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. -- Phillips Brooks
In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life. -- Dalai Lama
Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
He who is contented is rich. -- Laozi
Man is never perfect nor contented. -- Jules Verne
That best of blessings, a contented mind. -- Horace
A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence. -- Charles Dickens
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat. -- Barbara Mertz
A reflective, contented mind is the best possession. -- Zoroaster
When men are employed they are best contented. -- Benjamin Franklin
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Be contented, when you have got all you want. -- Holbrook Jackson
Joy and openness come from our own contented heart. -- Gautama Buddha
He was a contented dragon, not a tame one. -- Thea Harrison
We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform. -- Thomas Jefferson
Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects. -- Jonathan Mayhew
Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I won't change my legs. because I'm contented with my long-legged. -- Melanie Marquez
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. -- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented. -- Thomas Jefferson
In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one. -- Jennifer Wilson
A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. -- Akhenaton
I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure. -- Thomas A. Edison
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only? -- Juvenal
Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men. -- John Milton
Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind. -- Nazr Mohammed
Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within. -- Satish Kumar
To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly. -- Emily Dickinson
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. -- William Cowper
Instead (Harry) contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight. -- J. K. Rowling
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. -- Arthur Christiansen
I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one. -- Josh Billings
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing. -- Madeleine de Scudery
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. -- William Wordsworth
The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE -- Tom Standage
How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage! -- Ann Radcliffe
For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least. -- William Davenant
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages. -- Charles Lamb
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest. -- Jerome K. Jerome
I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. -- Michael Gambon
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation. -- Thomas a Kempis
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. -- Walter Savage Landor
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent. -- Adoniram Judson
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it. -- Horace
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. -- Karen Cushman
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. -- Charles Caleb Colton
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires. -- Jeremy Taylor
I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously. -- Don Ameche
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them. -- Thomas Carlyle
If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented. -- Indira Gandhi
The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. -- Charles Spurgeon
It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes. -- Gautama Buddha
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall. -- Jeremiah Burroughs
since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit. -- Jeremy Taylor
The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities. -- Bill Vaughan
When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving. -- Craig Groeschel
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. -- Thomas Carlyle
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content. -- Confucius
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -- Socrates
England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace. -- Louisa May Alcott
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things. -- Orson Welles
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot? -- Kathleen Norris
Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel. -- John Hay
The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented. -- St. Jerome
I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man." -- Eric Idle
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires. -- Liezi
I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man. -- Eric Idle
Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer. -- Richard Ingrams
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things. -- Baruch Spinoza
To lead happy, contented, peaceful lives, remember all the good times you share with others, forget all the good you do for others. -- Rita Zahara
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks. -- Henry David Thoreau
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever. -- Harry Stack Sullivan
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. -- Horace
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that. -- Neil Gaiman

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