Contentment Quotes
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You can wait your whole life and never happen upon contentment.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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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 work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
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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.
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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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Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.
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Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.
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If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.
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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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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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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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To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
