Contentment Quotes

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

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.

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

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

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.

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

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.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

Move inwards! Contentment is a quality of your center; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being; it is not found in the ego.

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.

Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

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.

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

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

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

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

Total contentment is only for cows.

Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.

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

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

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.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

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.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness.

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.

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

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

Be satisfied with what you have.

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

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

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

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

He is well paid that is well satisfied.