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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
— Gautama Buddha
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
— John Ortberg
Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.
— Dave Ramsey
In all the years together
You've shared joy, and contentment too
Long may it continue
In the years ahead, for the both of you — John Walter Bratton
You've shared joy, and contentment too
Long may it continue
In the years ahead, for the both of you — John Walter Bratton
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
— Henry Fielding
Truth - although difficult at times - is eventually the path to contentment and peace.
— Maeve Greyson
Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.
— Alison Fell
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
— John Chrysostom
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Selfless service gives contentment and change the vision of seeing things invisible to others.
— Kishore Bansal
Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.
— Thomas Watson
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
— Alain De Botton
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
— John Tillotson
Loneliness is a funny disease. You don't realize how badly you're infected until someone gives you a shot of contentment - and then it wears off
— Brigid Kemmerer
We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment.
— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig
Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return.
— Munia Khan
Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment.
— Louise Dickinson Rich
Contentment celebrates grace. The contended heart is satisfied with the Giver and is therefore freed from craving the next gift.
— Paul David Tripp
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
— William Ames
We cannot avoid pain, we cannot avoid loss. Contentment comes from the ease and flexibility with which we move through change.
— Helen Fielding
It's up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now - and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we'll be happy.
— Joanna Gaines
Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.
— Charles R. Swindoll
When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
— Beverly LaHaye
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
A successful relationship requires 3 factors - Love, tolerance and contentment.
— Deepika Muthusamy
Examine your attitudes toward food, clothes, and shelter. By reducing expectations you will promote contentment.
— Dalai Lama XIV
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
— Eugene O'Neill
It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.
— Anthony Liccione
Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.
— Julianne MacLean
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
You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.
— Jo Nesbo
All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.
— Buck Brannaman
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
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.
— Mary Howitt
What calamity is greater than no contentment,
and what flaw greater than the passion for gain. — Lao-Tzu
and what flaw greater than the passion for gain. — Lao-Tzu
It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.
— Richard J. Foster
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
— Abu Bakr
Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.
— T.D. Jakes
Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.
— Priscilla Shirer
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.
— Tom Robbins
Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."
- from "Dimpellumpzki — Richelle E. Goodrich
- from "Dimpellumpzki — Richelle E. Goodrich
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.
— Libba Bray
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
It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
— Thomas Watson
Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.
— Bryant McGill
Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.
— Charles L. Allen
Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.
— Benjamin Franklin
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
— John Eldredge
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
— Ellen Glasgow
Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.
— Gautama Buddha
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
— John Balguy
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
— Benjamin Franklin
There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
— Ray Charles
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
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
Never had I realized the magnitude of the emotion that is contentment, over the emotions that are joy and sadness. Until now.
— Anonymous
Be grateful for what you have and you will always have enough.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.
— Paul Enenche
When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
— Charles R. Swindoll
No matter what you're facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.
— Elizabeth George
Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.
— J.K. Rowling
The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.
— Anthony Liccione
When you accept that there is no success greater than inner-peace and contentment, you instantly qualify yourself for more success.
— Bryant McGill
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.
— Thomas Frank
She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.
— Thomas Hardy
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
No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.
— Howard Stringer
Contentment is a rose, and the daily increase of our wants, are the thorns.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
Having happy kids is far more important than anything they'll ever accomplish. Without happiness success and contentment is always hard to reach.
— Ron Baratono
Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know ...
— John Geddes
And the pursuit of fun does not lead to overall contentment. Studies have shown this consistently.
— Graeme Simsion
All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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
a way way too long but reachable,
not for everyone a way but possible ...
Go and don't lose your way! — Rossana Condoleo
Without satisfaction, he will find no contentment, and without contentment, he will find no joy.
— R.A. Salvatore
Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.
— Dave Ramsey
Gratitude and love are always multiplied when you give freely. It is an infinite source of contentment and prosperous energy.
— Jim Fargiano
When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.
— Gautama Buddha