Contentment Quotes
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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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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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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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True contentment comes with empathy.
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Monochrome contentment or technicolor roller-coaster? No contest, is it?
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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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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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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
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One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
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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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Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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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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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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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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
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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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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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A lonely impulse of delight
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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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All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.
