Contentment – Zitate

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.

— Socrates

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

— C. C. Colton

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

— Mrs. Maria Edgeworth

We cannot be young twice; we cannot turn upon our steps, and go back to gather the garlands we gathered ten years ago. And, therefore, with a gaze over on the cross upon the distant hills, and a remembrance always of the shadow land that lies beyond, let us endeavor to be contented with small things, and to make ourselves happy in the pleasantness of simple pleasures.

— Holme Lee

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

— Christian Scriver

Come calm content serene and sweet,      O gently guide my pilgrim feet      To find thy hermit cell.

— A. L. Barbauld

I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content.

— Bible