Contentment Quotes
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From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
James Beattie -
Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
Kristin Armstrong
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Monochrome contentment or technicolor roller-coaster? No contest, is it?
Catherine Sanderson -
Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.
Joshua Ferris -
True contentment comes with empathy.
Tim Finn Crowded House -
May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
William Shenstone -
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.
Dalai Lama
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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.
Donald Miller -
I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
J. I. Packer -
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.
Dalai Lama
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
C. S. Lewis -
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
Og Mandino -
Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
A lonely impulse of delight
William Butler Yeats -
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.
John Dalton -
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
Bill Vaughan
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Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
Donald Hall -
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.
Alfred Nobel -
All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.
Winslow Homer -
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
Charles Dickens