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Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.
— Neal A. Maxwell
If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
— Robert Southey
Selfless service gives contentment and change the vision of seeing things invisible to others.
— Kishore Bansal
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
— Alain De Botton
Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment.
— Simon Boylan
I'm in a win-win playoff. Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.
— Billy Graham
The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Surely I could give hima sort of contentment ...
That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver. — Dodie Smith
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
— John Stuart Mill
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
— Robert Herrick
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
— Oscar Wilde
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
— William Ames
Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.
— John C. Maxwell
Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.
— Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
If you're not content with the small things, then you won't be content with the big things.
— Anthony Liccione
You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers
— Binye Vincent
Maybe that's the definition of true contentment: choosing to rest in who God is, regardless of the circumstances.
— Stephanie Rische
Imagined happiness is still happiness.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I don't look for bliss, just contentment.
— Alison Krauss
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
— Stewart Alsop
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment. — B.K.S. Iyengar
The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.
— Anthony Liccione
When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.
— Paul Enenche
I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance.
— Jessa Crispin
When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.
— John Stott
Lord, make me nowAs happy as the field.
With flowers enriched ... — Eileen A. Soper
Money isn't everything.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
True contentment comes with empathy.
— Tim Finn
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
— Benjamin Franklin
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.
— J.K. Rowling
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
— Anonymous
Monochrome contentment or technicolor roller-coaster? No contest, is it?
— Catherine Sanderson
When you accept that there is no success greater than inner-peace and contentment, you instantly qualify yourself for more success.
— Bryant McGill
Never allow your possessions to possess you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)
— John F. Kennedy
She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.
— Thomas Hardy
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
— Ameen Rihani
We had little but we didn't know we had little. It seemed to us that we had much and we were very content.
— Aleksandra Layland
But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?
— Franz Kafka
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment.
— Lorna Jackie Wilson
Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.
— Gautama Buddha
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
— Ellen Glasgow
Total contentment is only for cows.
— Bette Midler
God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.
— Anthony Liccione
To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.'" Jacob
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.
— Larry Herzberg
Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.
— Priscilla Shirer
What calamity is greater than no contentment,and what flaw greater than the passion for gain. — Lao-Tzu
Contentment isn't something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it's a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.
— A.P. Jensen
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.
— Abhijit Naskar
Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
— Ray Charles
No matter what you're facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.
— Elizabeth George
When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.
— Gautama Buddha
There's a way, a way way too long but reachable,
not for everyone a way but possible ...
Go and don't lose your way! — Rossana Condoleo
We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.
— C.S. Lewis
Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.
— Linda Dillow
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
Contentment is a rose, and the daily increase of our wants, are the thorns.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Our goal isn't contentment in and of itself. We're not after a mystical state of Zen. Our goal is to be content for the glory and honor of God.
— Stephen Altrogge
What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.
— Stephen Schwartz
Only when night comes do I feel, if not happiness, at least some kind of repose which I experience as contentment
— Fernando Pessoa
Content not to know my purpose here or where I'm going.
— Marty Rubin
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
— Pietro Aretino
Examine your attitudes toward food, clothes, and shelter. By reducing expectations you will promote contentment.
— Dalai Lama XIV
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
— George Edward Woodberry
