Contentment Quotes
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As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
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Monochrome contentment or technicolor roller-coaster? No contest, is it?
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Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
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One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.
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True contentment comes with empathy.
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Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
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One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
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There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
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A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.
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Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.
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Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
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I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
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There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
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A lonely impulse of delight
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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.