The famous sayings about contentment include:

1. If you are contented, how can you not live well? ?——Yelu Chucai

Translation: As long as you know how to be satisfied in your life, what else can’t you do to spend your life peacefully?

2. Be content and happy, be able to endure and be at peace. ?——"Proverbs Lian Bi·Hui Ji Lei"

Translation: If you know that you are satisfied, you will always feel happy, and if you can be tolerant, you will naturally feel stable.

3. There is no sin greater than the desire, no disaster greater than dissatisfaction, and no blame greater than the desire. ?——Lao Dan

Translation: There is no sin greater than indulgence of desire, no disaster greater than insatiability, and no fault greater than greed. Therefore, people who know how to be satisfied will always feel satisfied and happy.

4. Be content with the breadth of the world, but be greedy for the narrowness of the universe. ?——Zeng Guofan

Translation: If you are satisfied, you will feel that the world is broad; if you are greedy, you will feel that the universe is narrow.

5. Be content but not greedy, know restraint but not be immoral. ?——Lin Bu

Translation: A person who is content will not be greedy for money; a person who knows how to be frugal will not waste money.