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When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness...

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

Contentment: The smother of invention.

True humility is contentment.

The budget process is in shambles, devoid of accountability, transparency, and enforcement measures, ... A vote for the status quo is a clear sign of contentment with the spending explosion in Washington.

The heart does not calculate in numbers; it confers contentment which is immeasurable. That contentment can arise only through faith.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

It's a sense of contentment that we reached a bowl this year. But we're really driven to win a football game.

No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.

I am very happy in this side and this type of contentment doesn't have a price. I want for nothing here and look forward to staying for many years.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Those who want much, are always much in need.

Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited about something it's contagious.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

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

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you. You'll never be happy and you'll never be content. The only really contentment or true happiness is with Christ.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

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.

Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don't nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becomes filled with happiness. Don't have any desire for peace, and see how the turmoil within you vanishes. Don't beg for contentment and see how contentment showers down on you. Please try this - only then will you understand.

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place, rightly exercised under the Cross, will find nourishment.

The happiness state, when examined more closely, turns out not to be a point but a range, with contentment at the bottom and exaltation at the top...there are probably as many forms of happiness as there are of depression.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

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.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

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.

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

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.

I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

Familiarity breeds contentment.

Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

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.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

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.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

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

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

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.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

As meditation goes deep you will feel less and less desires, more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. There will be less and less desire for that which you don't have, and more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. As meditation goes deeper, a very contented consciousness evolves. Ultimately there is no desire, only contentment.

Egolessness is contentment.

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you are doing, you will feel a cool center inside - contentment.

Love can have the quality of the devil - that`s how it is there in the world, ninety-nine percent. Love can have the quality of God, and unless you make your love divine, it is not going to give you any contentment.

Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.