Contentment Quotes - Page 8

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment but I couldn't. I didn't find it in pushing the dark things of life to the limit either.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness.

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content.

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!

It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.