Contentment Quotes - Page 2

Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased. Love is happiness.

Ellen J. Barrier

If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.

Joshua Becker

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Doug Larson

...you play the instrument you have.

Ursula K Le Guin

If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.

David Mitchell

Do not think, Oh, that I were delivered from all these afflictions and troubles here in this world! If you were, then you would have more ease yourself, but this is a way of honoring God, and manifesting the excellence of grace here, when you are in this conflict of temptation, which God shall not have from you in Heaven.

Jeremiah Burroughs

A year of contentment is worth more than ten of prosperity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like bandit - will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You do not have to have the best of everything to make the best of everything.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

Malcolm Bradbury

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

Ally Condie

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

Jackie Kay

When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.

Tom Althouse

Contentment achieve inwardly change outer realities

Kishore Bansal

Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness.

Kishore Bansal

Simple things, simple pleasures, cutting and splitting wood, a love of the country they wanted to see more of, memories of softball fields and a girl named Amanda. There are such women as Theresa "Sam" Fitzgerald who love their men. Are content with their lives together.

James Brady

Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.

Malti Bhojwani

Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.

Voltaire

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

E.L.Doctorow

Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.

Chloe Thurlow

A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right.

Caitlin Rush

Money brings courage with it but lock contentment behind.

Kishore Bansal

In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one another. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many things depend upon this thing? God may have some work to do twenty years hence that depends on this passage of providence that falls out this day or this week.

Jeremiah Burroughs

I couldn't ignore the fact that it felt good. So. Very. Good. To be held, in bed, in the arms of a tall, strong, handsome man.

Kristen Ashley

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

Anonymous

I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance.

Jessa Crispin

A man may be absolutely poor and dispossessed of everything, and yet be wordly. Another man may be very wealthy and yet severed. Severance means that one's heart must not be attached to the things of this world. It does not mean that a man must dispossess himself of them, or that he must not work and earn or practice his profession, whatever it may be, in the world. It does not mean that he must not put on what he has. If he has a silk garb, let him wear that; and if he has not, but has a suit of cotton goods, let him wear that clean. He must feel the same in both.

Abdu'l-Bahá

Life is contentment not a competition.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly. Chuang Tzu

Sung Yee Poon

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

John Balguy

In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough.

Richard K. Morgan

We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.

C.S. Lewis

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean "fine" or "basically satisfied." I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.

Meghan Daum

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing.

Jennifer Senior

She isn't the kind of girl that makes you wonder why she doesn't have someone, you just know that the kind of guy who is good enough for her is rare, and she projects the kind of strength that says she is perfectly happy to wait till he shows up.

Stacey Ballis

The two women sat by the fire, tilting their glasses and drinking in small peaceful sips. The lamplight shone upon the tidy room and the polished table, lighting topaz in the dandelion wine, spilling pools of crimson through the flanks of the bottle of plum gin. It shone on the contented drinkers, and threw their large, close-at-hand shadows upon the wall. When Mrs Leak smoothed her apron the shadow solemnified the gesture as though she were moulding an universe. Laura's nose and chin were defined as sharply as the peaks peaks on a holly leaf.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.

Sadhguru

Once you have the gift of life, you are blessed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The moment we go looking for anything outside of ourselves, i.e., when we make our happiness contingent on another, we have a serious problem. All of the emotions and feelings that we have come from within―we have those natural capacities ourselves. If we did not have an appetite to begin with, food would hold no appeal. It does not make us hungry; it merely stimulates that hunger inside of us. The same is true of all virtues and vices. Everything we need to gratify us can be found within, if only we venture to look and not pay heed to the bright and blinding lights that have enthralled most of this world.

John Stack IV

Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe, that conveyed God's goodness to you? 'The pipe is cut off,' says God, 'come to me, the fountain, and drink immediately.' Though the beams are taken away, yet the sun remains the same in the firmament as ever it was.

Jeremiah Burroughs

Most beautiful of all was the tarnished gold of the elms, with a little brown in it, a little bronze, a little blue, even-- a blue like amethyst, which made them melt into the azure haze with a kind of happiness, a harmony of mood that filled the air with content.

Willa Cather

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.

Jo Nesbø

She pats my knee. I’m going to tell you something my grandmother told me when I was fifteen years old. `Eliza, you won’t ever be content with someone if you can’t learn how to be content by yourself first.

Erynn Mangum

I HAVE PLENTYI know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have the learned the secret of being content in any and every situation. Whether well fed or hungry , whether living in plenty or in want I.WILL HAVE PLENTY

The Good Book

Godliness with contentment is rare.

Craig Groeschel

We speak of searching for happiness, of finding contentment, as if these were locations on an atlas, actual places that we could visit if only we had the proper map and the right navigational skills.

Melody Warnick

A rich man is not one who has the most, but one who needs the least.

Unknown

Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way.

Joanna Gaines

Thus it looks in the last analysis as if the soul which serves God in spirit and in truth enjoys a very unusual kind of peace: not the satisfying inward rest which we would have expected, nor the outward rest of having everything in order and nothing left out, but a rest which consists in contentment at having sacrificed both to the will of God.

Dom Hubert Van Zeller

Some days 'staying put' might feel the same as Going Nowhere.Make a cup of tea, and wait for that feeling to pass.

Vivian Swift

No one’s life ever goes as they planned. That truth alone should bring a sense of relief to everyone.

Andrena Sawyer

Everything that is truly of value–love, family, peace, health, and contentment—can never be bought.

Tiffany L. Jackson

Life is contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Go with the ebbs and the flows, and allow this non-resistance to guide us to contentment.

Maximus Freeman

All I ever think about day and night is-how can I make a difference in the lives of others, how can I provide an ounce of contentment and happiness?

Charmaine J.Forde

Perhaps, the secret in reaching that ever eluding state of personal contentment, lies in finding the balance between not caring too much and not giving a damn.

Francois Bonthuys

Happiness lies in being content with what you have right now, than mongering over what you don't have. Respect Life, Celebrate Now!

Ramana Pemmaraju

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