Contentment Quotes - Page 4

There is a popular heresy abroad today which states that if a little is good, more is better. Following this dictum creates a life which is never fulfilling. Even while you are engaged in one rich experience you are looking about for another. There is no contentment because future plans are always intruding on the present.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

True happiness lies within you.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

A grateful person is rich in contentment.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.

There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

Now I find that in a state of pure obedience the mind learns contentment in appearing weak and foolish to that wisdom which is of the world; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place and are rightly exercised under the cross will find nourishment.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.

It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.