Contentment Quotes - Page 6

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.

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.

Total contentment is only for cows.

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".