contentment with little Quotes

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.

My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.