Contentment Quotes - Page 11

Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

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.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

Our content Is our best having.

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

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

A lonely impulse of delight

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.