A Quote by Orison Swett Marden

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Orison Swett Marden

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Orison Swett Marden
American - Writer
1850 - 1924

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Indira Gandhi

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

Francis Quarles

Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

Walter Savage Landor

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

Joseph Addison

Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

John Ruskin

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

Satish Kumar

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

Samuel Richardson

He who is contented is rich.

Lao Tzu

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

Charles Spurgeon

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.