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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The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
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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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Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.
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One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
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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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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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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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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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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
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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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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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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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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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All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
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When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
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True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
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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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When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.
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A lonely impulse of delight
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
