Contentment Quotes

• You can wait your whole life and never happen upon contentment.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Life
  • Happen
  • Wait

• I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.

  

  Clare B. Dunkle
  • Night
  • Running
  • Water

• Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Literature
  • Contentment

• True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • World
  • True
  • Contentment

• For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Spiritual
  • Pride

• Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.

  

  Will Durant
  • Men
  • Animals
  • Contentment

• 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.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • True
  • Strong
  • Desire

• 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.

  

  David Leonhardt
  • Running
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Able
  • Miserable
  • Approval

• A lonely impulse of delight

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Lonely
  • Delight
  • Impulse

• Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Contentment
  • Cheerfulness
  • Good Looks

• The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Quality
  • Contentment

• All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

  

  Winslow Homer
  • House
  • Contentment
  • Lovely

• 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.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Children
  • Joy
  • Perfection

• Though the trying times trying to get the best of me, I’m still findin’ time to show I care. With my crying eyes I see contentment because of you.

  

  Boyz II Men
  • Eyes
  • Care
  • Contentment

• Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Work
  • Contentment

• The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment.

  

  Ayya Khema
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Contentment

• Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

  

  Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
  • God
  • Happiness
  • Contentment

• '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.

  

  Colin Welland
  • Man
  • Complete
  • Aubrey

• To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Enemy
  • Memories
  • Sister

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Gratitude
  • Order

• Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.

  

  Bob Lewis
  • Progress
  • Ambition
  • Contentment

• 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.

  

  Stephen Schwartz
  • Lives
  • Contentment
  • Contribution

• Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Wealth
  • Contentment
  • Genuine

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