Contentment Quotes
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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
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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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When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
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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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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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'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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A lonely impulse of delight
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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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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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You can wait your whole life and never happen upon contentment.
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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 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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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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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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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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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.
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Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.
