Top 76 Best Contentment Quotes
#2. 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.
Robert Rauschenberg
#3. There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Swami Sivananda
#4. It's probably the best memory I have from my whole life. Just waiting to see some dolphins that never came.
Xo
#5. So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment.
Thomas S. Monson
#7. If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Leon Kass
#8. The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.
Abhijit Naskar
#9. Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.
Marie Leszczynska
#10. According to Paul, contentment is precisely what you and I are to study (Philippians 4:11). "Learn to be content," he tells us, understanding that if we're not content where we are today, we'll not be content wherever we plan on going tomorrow.
Jon Courson
#11. The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being. I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.
Maggie Stiefvater
#12. Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#14. 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.
Jhonen Vasquez
#15. This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.
Dexter Palmer
#17. Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.
Sylvia Day
#18. It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
Sinclair Lewis
#20. Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.
Elise Blackwell
#21. The people who live and lead with the most joy and contentment are those who have clarity about their priorities. They know what they do best and fill their days with more of those activities.
Michael Hyatt
#22. Contentment is an expression of faith in the goodness of God. It says, God, I believe you love me and know what's best for me.
Rick Warren
#23. Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
Gautama Buddha
#24. You do not have to have the best of everything to make the best of everything.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.
Russell Brand
#26. Health is the highest prize. Contentment is the greatest wealth. A loyal friend is the best relative. Nirvana is supreme bliss.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#27. Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
Alan Lightman
#28. When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.
Ellen J. Barrier
#29. Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
Plautus
#31. Is contentment death? Does one need to want in order to live?
A.M. Homes
#32. Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.
Stephen Richards
#34. Our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.
Alain De Botton
#35. Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?
Holly Robinson
#36. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
#37. Here are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
Jose Saramago
#38. Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser
#39. 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.
John Lubbock
#40. I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.
John Steinbeck
#41. It promotes charity, courage, contentment, and many other evils.
C.S. Lewis
#42. Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
Bill Gothard
#43. True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#45. Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#46. In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#47. Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place, rightly exercised under the Cross, will find nourishment.
John Woolman
#48. We can always be sure of one thing - that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.
Christopher Hitchens
#49. What calamity is greater than no contentment,
and what flaw greater than the passion for gain.
Lao-Tzu
#50. Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.
Walter Russell
#51. It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.
Michael Chabon
#52. The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.
T.D. Jakes
#53. It holds my essential stuff, including a book - for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit, my friends, into one's pocket[ ... ]
Michael Chabon
#54. A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
David A. Bednar
#55. I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [ ... ] maybe it's better.
Heather Anastasiu
#56. Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.
Bryant McGill
#57. 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.
Bill Vaughan
#58. It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.
Frances Perkins
#59. True affluence is not needing anything.
Gary Snyder
#60. Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.
Gautama Buddha
#61. Real contentment must come from within. You and I can not change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#62. True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
Oscar Wilde
#63. I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
Alan Bennett
#64. The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
Jose Saramago
#65. Your inner growth is completely dependent upon the realization that the only way to find peace and contentment is to stop thinking about yourself.
Michael A. Singer
#66. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
G.K. Chesterton
#67. You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.
Jo Nesbo
#68. Anahita mewed contentment as she snuggled even closer to Imamiah. She was enjoying her interactions with Imamiah very much. She could not understand why angels remained as spirit when this flesh was so much more pleasurable.
Bella Swann
#69. God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!
Dada Bhagwan
#70. I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
Richard Paul Evans
#71. It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
Robert Southey
#72. Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
John Ford
#73. Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is
Josh Billings
#74. A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#75. To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#76. As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path ... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
