Contentment Quotations

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

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.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

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. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

There are enough resources in the world for everyone.

Frankly, I do them for the satisfaction of those achievements. I have a feeling of contentment and a satisfaction that I've done something faster or farther than anyone before.

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

I appeal to all Irishmen to pause, to stretch out the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive and forget, and to join with me in making for the land they love a new era of peace, contentment and goodwill.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

We can learn a lot from dogs. The sweet balm of puppy love can soothe a tender hearts. Often the way to inner peace and contentment is as close as a cool tile floor, a rub on the belly or a long walk with someone we love.

The purpose of the book isn't necessarily, 'We're all miserable and here's how to be happier,' ... There are many people who are feeling very happy. But it's addressed to people from the standpoint of whatever level of life satisfaction and contentment you're experiencing, it's always possible through your own efforts to increase that level and improve upon it.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

The noblest mind the best contentment has

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

The life must be a well-balanced life, not lopsided in any manner to bring contentment.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

we're all golden sunflowers inside.

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

Be satisfied with what you have.

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

Contentment is the only real wealth

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

A grateful person is rich in contentment.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same...

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

There are two things that kill a genius: a fatal disease and contentment.

Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.

Total contentment is only for cows.

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

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.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

Contentment is knowing you're right

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Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want.....If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Contentment is not something to be gained by possession.You can not work simply at being content,but must work at making a difference.True contentment is gained by the difference you make in the lives of others.

The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values The best things in life feel like we feel when we waste our time!

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Faith, contentment and tolerance are the food and provisions of the angels. They obtain the Perfect Vision of the Lord, while those who gossip find no place of rest.

A man's well-being depends upon his degree of contentment. 

If you look back from where we came from and the ordeal we came through, this is a blessing. The atmosphere that exists helps you to have some peace and contentment with yourself, especially as you reflect.

If you and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.