Contentment - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10024<![CDATA[The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10025<![CDATA[I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10026<![CDATA[Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10003<![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10004<![CDATA[To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10005<![CDATA[Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10006<![CDATA[My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10008<![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10010<![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10011<![CDATA[Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10013<![CDATA[One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10014<![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10015<![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017<![CDATA[Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10018<![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10019<![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10020<![CDATA[Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10021<![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10022<![CDATA[He that is well paid is well satisfied. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9999<![CDATA[They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10000<![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001<![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10002<![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9996<![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997<![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9998<![CDATA[We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9975<![CDATA[You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9976<![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9977<![CDATA[Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9978<![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9979<![CDATA[Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9980<![CDATA[We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9981<![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9982<![CDATA[Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9983<![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9984<![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985<![CDATA[The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9986<![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9987<![CDATA[Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9988<![CDATA[The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9989<![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9990<![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9991<![CDATA[If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9992<![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993<![CDATA[It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9994<![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995<![CDATA[Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5268<![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3379