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

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

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

Ask often, be content of little, reward always.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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 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.

Be satisfied with what you have.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

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

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

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

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.