Og Mandino Quotes

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

The more simple my life is, the happier I am.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

Contentment is natural wealth.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

I'm just happy. I'm just me right now.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.