Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Contentment

Quotes about: Contentment

• As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Contentment, Way, Sometimes

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.131

• Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Vision, Contentment

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.445

• Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Doubt, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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