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"Be contented when you have got all you want." »Holbrook Jackson
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"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." »Socrates
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"It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are." »Sir James MacKintosh
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"My motto is: contented with little, yet wishing for more." »Charles Lamb
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"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?" »Kathleen Norris
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"A contented mind is a continual feast." »American Proverb
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"A contented mind is the best source for trouble." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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"Progress is not created by contented people." »Frank Tyger
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"Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible." »Pearl Bailey
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"Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,
That slaves however contented never know." »Cowper
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"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all." »Horace
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"Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise." »Lewis Thomas
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"A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth." »The Hitopadesa
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"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. 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 that he was meant and made to do." »Phillips Brooks
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"Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"He who does not care for Heaven but is contented where he is, is already in Heaven." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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"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
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