Contentment Quotes
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All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.
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When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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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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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
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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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So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.
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A lonely impulse of delight
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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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You can wait your whole life and never happen upon contentment.
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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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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment.
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In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.
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Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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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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Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.
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Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.
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Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.
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What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.
