Being Content Quotes
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Being Content Quotes & Sayings
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To be fully present with what is, is to be content ... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.
— Michael Neill
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
— William Penn
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
— Louis L'Amour
We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.
— Shantanu Narayen
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
— Plato
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
— Hermann Hesse
Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.
— David Steindl-Rast
I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.
— James Clavell
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
— Alain De Botton
The ideal adventurer needs ... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs ...
— P.G. Wodehouse
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past. ELLEN VAUGHN1
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
— Paulo Coelho
Being a depressed hippie is a lose-lose. It would be like if a rice cake had the caloric content of a MoonPie.
— Adam Carolla
Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
— Marguerite Gardiner
When men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole - a deficiency - we scramble to fill it.
— Brandon Sanderson
The purpose of studying opening theory should not be accumulating any set amount of knowledge, but being content with whatever knowledge one has.
— Paul Van Der Sterren
We may both be bad, but there's a huge difference between us - I'm not content with being this way.
— Veronica Roth
Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.
— Richard Dawkins
I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same ...
— Claude Monet
. . being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you." (Heb. 13:5)
— Priscilla Shirer
Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.
— Francine Prose
It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.
— Neel Mukherjee
We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.
— Cynthia Hand
Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.
— Olga Kurylenko
Being content isn't good enough. You deserve so much more - passion, joy, and excitement...
— Nancee Cain
Happiness is the contentment in the heart, peace of mind, a sense of stability, a right attitude and being content with what is sufficient.
— Moazzam Shaikh
Many of today's Christians are focused on obtaining what they want instead of being content knowing God will provide for their needs.
— Jarrid Wilson
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
— Bernard Meltzer
That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I like being able to put out my own content instead of just going from audition to audition and just waiting and hoping.
— Reagan Gomez-Preston
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
— John Henry Newman
Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.
— Rick Pitino
I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story) ...
— Shari Wiedmann
