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A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

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.

Ask often, be content of little, reward always.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

Be satisfied with what you have.

Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.

Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.

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

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Contentment is a pearl of great price

Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

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

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

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

Contentment is an undervalued grace.

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

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

Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.

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

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

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

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

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.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

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

Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

Contentment is natural wealth.

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Contentment: The smother of invention.

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.