Contentment Quotes - Page 9

Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

Familiarity breeds contentment.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how sure we would then be of doing His Holy Will, which is our sole aspiration, and how much peace and contentment we would enjoy, or so it seems to me!