Contentment Quotes - Page 10

Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.

Contentment is an undervalued grace.

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

Egolessness is contentment.

We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.

Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

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

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]