If you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.Lao Tzu
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.Yanni
We should be satisfied with the small things in life. The less we need, the less trouble we can have.Leo Tolstoy
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.Orison Swett Marden
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.Arnold Schwarzenegger
I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There's a really cool diner down the street from my house. They make really good pancakes; I'd be happy doing that.'Brie Larson
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.James Naismith
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.Laurence J. Peter
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.Buddha
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.Lao Tzu
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.Lao Tzu
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.Lao Tzu
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.Abraham Lincoln
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.Dolley Madison
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.Khalil Gibran
The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.Richard Rohr
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.Douglas William Jerrold
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.William Inge