Contentment Quotes
Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.
Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.
There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?
I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.
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 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.
I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.
If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.
Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.
Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.
What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.
Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.
In all the years together You've shared joy, and contentment too Long may it continue In the years ahead, for the both of you
There is an unmistakable freedom that accompanies contentment: a freedom to be who you are, enjoy who you are, and live the life you were destined to live.
Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.
We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.
There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.