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

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.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

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

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.

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, 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.

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 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... 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.

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.

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.

Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited about something it's contagious.

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Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.