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"Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."

"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."

"The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in."

"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was."

"I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace."

"He is rich that is satisfied."

"Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else."

"I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great."

"I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence."
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