Contentment Quotations | Page 3

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

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.

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.

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

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.

The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

Our content Is our best having.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.

Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

Where wealth and freedom reign; contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.

Contentment with little or nothing to eat although one may have a great appetite; to awaken instantly although one may be in a deep slumber; unflinching devotion to the master; and bravery; these six qualities should be learned from the dog.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

The toad beneath the harrow knows / Exactly where each tooth-point goes; / The butterfly upon the road / Preaches contentment to that toad.

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

He that is well paid is well satisfied.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

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.

I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Contentment is natural wealth.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

A lonely impulse of delight

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!