Contentment Quotes - Page 3

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

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.

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.

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

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.

Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.