Contentment Quotes
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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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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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
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'You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're a brave, compassionate, kind and content, man. That's your secret—contentment. I'm 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit and I don't even know what it is I'm chasing.
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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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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
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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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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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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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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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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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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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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.
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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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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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Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.
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Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
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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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Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.
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All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.
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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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Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.
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Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.
