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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don’t have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.
Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.
Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.
One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.
The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE
I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.
I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.
I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.
I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer.
Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
