True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.

He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: “This is as amusing as a novel.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.

Some want to be owned, and some want to be saved. Only some want to exist in the glow of contentment.

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?”

“We may be so content with telling ourselves that there is no time for reading, exercise, or meditation. Stop that nonsense.”

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.