Contentment Quotes

True affluence is not needing anything.

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

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

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

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

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

Happiness is wanting what you have.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

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.

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

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.

Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.

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

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

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

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

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.

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

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

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!

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

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.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

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

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.

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

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.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

Familiarity breeds contentment.

Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

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

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.

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

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

We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

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

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

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