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No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.
— Thurman Arnold
We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.
— William Carey
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
— George Eliot
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
— Neil Gaiman
A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.
— Charles Dickens
what need of wealth and riches when he could lead a simple, contented life
— Peter Michael Rosenberg
A life built upon Sabbath is contented because in rhythms of rest we discover our time is full of the holiness of God.
— Shelly Miller
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
— Michael Flanders
To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.
— Emily Dickinson
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
— Horace
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
— Charles Lamb
Savour a slow-paced contented life.
— Fennel Hudson
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
— Madeleine De Scudery
Man is never perfect nor contented.
— Jules Verne
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I won't change my legs. because I'm contented with my long-legged.
— Melanie Marquez
A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
— Socrates
So why am I often miserable about what goes on here? Shouldn't I be happy, contented, and glad.
— Anne Frank
When men are employed they are best contented.
— Benjamin Franklin
I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
— Eric Idle
Love ... who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.
— Lauren Conrad
A contented sigh came from the tips of her toes.
— Linda L. Broday
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
— Jeremy Taylor
Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy..
— Edwin A. Abbott
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The success is relative so is the happiness. The struggle is absolute so is its journey. When you know the difference, you will be contented.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
They seemed happy and contented, though," remarked the Wizard, "and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for.
— L. Frank Baum
If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
He was a contented dragon, not a tame one.
— Thea Harrison
Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.
— Dmitri Mendeleev
Time, the destroyer of every affection, wore away my unpleasant feelings, and I became as contented as before. We
— James E. Seaver
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
— Chief Joseph
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.
— Craig Groeschel
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
— Ellen Swallow Richards
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
— Lillie Langtry
It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It was about the worst outcome possible for my competitive wife: a town of contented also-rans.
— Gillian Flynn
I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.
— Don Ameche
Contented poverty is an honorable estate.
— Epicurus
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
— Arthur Christiansen
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
— Thomas A Kempis
Man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for little is never lacking.
— Titus Lucretius Carus
Don't confuse your mentor with your buddies. Unlike the latter, your mentor isn't contented with where you're in life right now...
— Assegid Habtewold
I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer.
— Richard Ingrams
As far as he could remember, Sam slept through the night in deep content, if logs are contented.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Do not be contented with this unspeakable blessing for yourself alone - but publish abroad the story of the cross.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
— Gautama Buddha
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
— Barbara Mertz
If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate.
— Breanna Sampson
To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.
— Edwin A. Abbott
The only way to live is to risk being unhappy...and I'd rather be unhappy with the person I loved than as contented as a cat by the fire.
— Harry Haskell
Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The more worldly pleasure we enjoy, the less satisfied and contented we are with life.
— Billy Graham
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
— Baruch Spinoza
Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there you must spend the most of your time.
— Jane Austen
To cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.
— Alice Thomas Ellis
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
— Confucius
Be contented, when you have got all you want.
— Holbrook Jackson
Apparently women are phenomenal creature, but to be contented with ones own beauty is a risk only few can take.
— Lawrence Okafor
There were a thousand ways to imagine someone unhappy and so few ways to imagine someone contented.
— Anna Quindlen
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
— Adoniram Judson
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
— William Dobell
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
— Kathleen Norris
Surrender to fate and you will never be fully contented.
— Steven Redhead
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
— Thomas Carlyle
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
— James Mackintosh
It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
— Gautama Buddha
I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.
— Frederick Douglass
Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket.
— Lionel Shriver
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.
— H.P. Lovecraft
For in a dearth of comforts, we art taughtTo be contented with the least. — William Davenant
