Contentment Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Happiness Inspirational Love Simplicity
As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the greatest sophistication. ...... be simple... be sophisticated... — Me Copy Share Image
When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I may not have everything I want in life but I have all I will ever need to make my life complete, my family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were… — Jennie Rooney Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
