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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.

Patience is the key to contentment.

It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.

If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.

Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

He that is well paid is well satisfied.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.