Contentment Quote by Pietro Aretino

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

— Joseph P. Farrell

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

— Lady Caroline Lamb

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are…

— Thucydides

When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.

— Suzanne Selfors

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

— L. Frank Baum

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

— Michael J. Knowles

People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell…

— Frederick Lenz

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

— Horace Walpole

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

— Anne Frank

To praise is an investment in happiness.

— David Dunn

They who increase knowledge, increase sorrow

— Proverb