Top 557 Contentment Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
Explore popular Contentment quotes.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.
Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.
I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.
As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.
Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?
Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment.
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.
We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.
Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.
Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.
At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.
The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.
Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.
The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.
I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
