Contentment Quote by Lao Tzu

The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. From the spiritual point of view, such a life is the lowest type of…

— Meher Baba

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

— Lao Tzu

A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own…

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The flat is small, with only a sliver of ocean view from the bedroom window, but I pay for it myself—not from the family…

— Emma Chase

The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And…

— Kenneth Keniston

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except…

— Carl Rogers

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person…

— Anthony Liccione

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

— Confucius

No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency…

— William Shakespeare

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

— Satish Kumar

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you…

— William Nicholson