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Happiness is not a goal ... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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
There comes a time in one's life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.
— Fennel Hudson
Give yourself the love and attention you desire, it's the starting point of contentment.
— Rob Liano
Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment.
— Simon Boylan
Did it really have to be like this?that the source of Man's contentment becomes the source of his misery?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.
— John Steinbeck
We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
— Mike Patton
Home is the place we should return to with eager spirits, the journey's end we reach with sighs of contentment.
— Karen Burton Mains
The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
When we turn life's little pleasures into remedies for life's troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.
— Lydia Brownback
No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
— Melissa De La Cruz
No, of course not. I just feel content," she said carefully."That's an old person's word," said Ethan. — Meg Wolitzer
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
— Robert Herrick
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
— William Ames
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
You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.
— Jo Nesbo
There's Nothing To Hide When Your Soul Is Not Guilty ...
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.
— Anthony Bourdain
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
It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
— Thomas Watson
Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.
— Charles L. Allen
Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.
— Frank A. Clark
Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie ... in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.
— Amy Krouse Rosenthal
It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
— Simone De Beauvoir
My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.
— Russell Brand
I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.
— Elizabeth Berg
We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.
— Thomas S. Monson
Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?
— Malcolm Bradbury
He had an animal's maturity, in which the play of kittens and puppies no longer has a function. His spectrum lay between terror and contentment.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Contentment ... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.
— Arthur W. Pink
If ambition has been converted from a vice to a virtue, contentment has been transformed from a virtue into a vice.
— Michael S. Horton
Contentment is an expression of faith in the goodness of God. It says, God, I believe you love me and know what's best for me.
— Rick Warren
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
— C.S. Lewis
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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
There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
— Ray Charles
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
— Larry McMurtry
I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
— Brian Swimme
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
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
— Leo Tolstoy
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
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
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment. — B.K.S. Iyengar
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
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
