Contentment Quotes
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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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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
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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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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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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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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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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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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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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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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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To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
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Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine 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.
