Contentment Quotes

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

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

The death of contentment is comparison.

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

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

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

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.

We need much less than we think we need.

There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.

Contentment is natural wealth.

Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.

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

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

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

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

Blessings upon your mind and heart. Let openness, trust and love be your first response. This is the secret to everlasting joy, peace and contentment.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

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

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

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

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

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.

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

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

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

Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

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

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

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

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

True happiness lies within you.

A grateful person is rich in contentment.

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

Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.

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

There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.