Contentment Quotes

Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

Contentment is an undervalued grace.

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

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

Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

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

In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

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

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

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

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

Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

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

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

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

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.

Egolessness is contentment.

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

Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

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.

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.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

Sage.” He laughed. “I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me.

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

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

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

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

A lonely impulse of delight

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

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

Happy are those who evolve from within.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

There are enough resources in the world for everyone.

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?