contentment quotes

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. 470

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Pagett, MP'.

   In solitude What happiness, who can enjoyalone, Or all enjoying, what contentment find?

-John Milton
   Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.364^6.

Contentment and fulfilment don't make for very good fiction.

-Joanna Trollope
  In TheTimes, 25 Jun.