Contentment Quotes
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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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A mellow understanding of life and of human nature is, and always has been, the Chinese ideal of character, and from that understanding other qualities are derived, such as pacifism, contentment, calm and strength of endurance which distinguish the Chinese character.
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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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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
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What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
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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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The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
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One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
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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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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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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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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
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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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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
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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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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
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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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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.
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The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied with their simple life and therefore do not seek to increase their material enjoyment... They are satisfied with their present lot and environment and therefore do not want to conquer nature but merely be at home with nature and at peace with their lot.
