Best 683 quotes in «contentment quotes» category

You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not True, things don't stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes forever scarred. And with each of these moments you change again, your true self spinning, shifting positions - but always at last it returns to you, like a dancer on the floor. Because throughout it all you are still always, *you*: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

A grateful person is rich in contentment.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. So if we have enough of what we need, let us be content with that.

Admit to your contentment so it can tip over into joy.

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.

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

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.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next.

Ask often, be content of little, reward always.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

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