Contentment Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image ““Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If we had never seen fishes, we should be at a loss to understand how any living beings could exist In the sea.” — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” ~ Henry David Thoreau” — Scott Leopold Copy Share Image
“Even if I were trying to catch a husband I would never fish in shallow waters.” — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
“It's not the fish you bring home from a day's fishing. It's the peace of mind.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fish for a man, he'll eat for a day, don't teach him to de-bone that fish, You may not have to worry about him… — V. Pain Copy Share Image
“One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do… — Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Copy Share Image
“Men who fish at shallow waters can never have enough fish to feed their family talk less of a nation or a generation” — Olojo Daniel Olatunji 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