One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

- Alex Lifeson

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

- Charles Lamb

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

- Joseph Addison

Man is never perfect nor contented.

- Jules Verne

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

- Jerome K. Jerome

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

- Jonathan Mayhew

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

- James Mackintosh

He who is contented is rich.

- Lao Tzu

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

- Lewis Thomas

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

- Socrates

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

- Walter Savage Landor