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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.
If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.
When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.
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.
Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.
The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.
There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
In my own personal life, it's been pretty hard navigating love, and so I've found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up.
Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.
I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.
Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.
Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.
In all the years together
You've shared joy, and contentment too
Long may it continue
In the years ahead, for the both of you
...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
Self-esteem is crucial to how much or how little contentment you feel at the end of your life.
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
The life must be a well-balanced life, not lopsided in any manner to bring contentment.
Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.
By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.
There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.
I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.
Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.
To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.
Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.
