The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness consists not in having much,
but in being content with little.
- Marguerite Gardiner
Keep your eyes open to your mercies.
The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: A Simple Life
Rejoice with What Is
A Life of Abundance
Be Thankful. Be Content.
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