Contentment Quote by Jane Taylor

“Now—after years of knowing what real problems were, after living with a man who was cautiously loving but no longer fawningly committed, a man…

— Allison Winn Scotch

“Wesley taught me the Way of the Owl. In the human world your value as a person is often intrinsically linked to your wealth…

— Stacey O'Brien

“And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated houses. Let…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be.…

— Shannon A. Thompson

“And this was known as that greatest of treasures, which is Hope. It was a good way of getting poorer really very quickly, and…

— Terry Pratchett

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“Let's be serious, I wasn't a jack of all trades. I was just a jack-off of none. A hubristic fool who lived in my…

— Aaron Goldfarb

“His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was…

— Steven Decker

“As a rich man sees no reason for rejoicing in a meager gift of bread until a turn of events leaves him impoverished, so…

— Paul Washer

“A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free…

— Besa Kosova

“Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.”

— Elise Blackwell

“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett