{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw35.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw35.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw35.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nContentment is to refrain from coveting what others have.\nContentment is a treasure which is inexhaustible.\nThe most thankful of men is he who is contented.\nHe who seeks riches must seek them in contentment.\nGive freely, and be content with little.\nA contented man is happy in life.\nLife is a vanishing space of time, and he alone vanquishes its changing fortunes who lives in contentment.\nBe content with what God has given you, and you will be the richest of men.\nIf you cannot have what you want, be content with what you have.\nIf all cannot be obtained, a part may be attained.\nThere is relief in despair.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Contentment","type":"page"}