Top 100 Content With Life Quotes
#1. To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#2. I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me.
Christina Aguilera
#3. Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.
Thomas Browne
#4. To win in life, never forget to be content competing with yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life.
Dane Brookes
#6. We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.
Ariel Durant
#7. Embracing a life content with fewer possessions has modeled for them the important truths that personal belongings are not the key to happiness, that security is found in their character, and that the pursuit of happiness runs a different road than the pursuit of possessions.
Joshua Becker
#8. God is the Master Author of your life. He has written every page of your life story in His eternal book. It's up to you to turn up the pages and move on with the next chapter or just get yourself stuck in the same content over and over again.- Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#9. We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.
Philip K. Dick
#10. Grow taller than your failures; never give up. People who are content with where they are will never be passionate about making greater accomplishments in their lives.
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself ... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you ... a life with no regrets.
Katharine Hepburn
#12. Happiness is when you're content with what you have and appreciate what you get with gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the
simple and beautiful things around him.
Billy Graham
#14. Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#15. Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.
Deepak Chopra
#16. You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.
Jane Seymour
#17. Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.
Michel Houellebecq
#18. IT'S MY CHOICE
I get a gift every morning, the gift of a new day,
It's up to me whether I make it bright, joyful or grey.
I can choose to be Happy, Successful and Content,
Or dishonor it with worry, anger or resent.
Maddy Malhotra
#19. Be patient in prayer, even though you should do nothing all your life but wait in patience, with a heart humbled, abandoned, resigned, and content for the return of your Beloved. Oh, excellent prayer! How it moves the heart of God, and obliges Him to return more than anything else!
Madame Guyon
#20. I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it.
Shannyn Sossamon
#21. Death waits for us all. Nothing's forever. Life's about making the best of what you find along the way. A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.
Joe Abercrombie
#22. I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am content with this gift of the Scriptures, which teaches and supplies all that is necessary both for this life and that which is to come.
Martin Luther
#23. So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.
Augusten Burroughs
#24. To be fully present with what is, is to be content ... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.
Michael Neill
#25. A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. So if we have enough of what we need, let us be content with that.
Saint Timothy
#26. The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
Euripides
#27. A woman does not need to live among many people to be content. She needs but one true companion, one soul mate with whom to share this long journey we call life.
Mary Alice Monroe
#28. The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.
Malala Yousafzai
#29. I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.
Mandy Moore
#30. We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace
#31. Always be excited about your life. Try to find and create beauty in and around you. Give away your love and smiles as much as you can. Be content and happy with what you have.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#33. I think I'm someone who is pretty happy with themselves and pretty content where they are in life. I want to share my happiness and hopefully enrich people's lives that I come into contact with.
Michael Waltrip
#34. If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you. You'll never be happy and you'll never be content. The only really contentment or true happiness is with Christ.
Mark Teixeira
#35. Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember how you ever could have felt cheated by fate.
Barbara Kingsolver
#36. If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way other people want me to. If they have a problem with my films, I can rip off their films, be it comedy or their family dramas, which are low on content and have over-theatrical acting.
Emraan Hashmi
#37. I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.
Jonah Peretti
#38. The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.
Martin Luther
#39. Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#40. If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by
Alison Weir
#41. They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it,
I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss;
And until they can show me some happier planet.
More social and bright, I'll content me with this.
Michael Moore
#42. Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
Samuel Johnson
#43. I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#44. Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.
John Stott
#45. India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
Gary Wright
#46. First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.
Cory Booker
#47. Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.
Anne Sullivan Macy
#48. Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!
Anthony Liccione
#49. Men are not content with a simple life: they are acquisitive, ambitious, competitive, and jealous; they soon tire of what they have, and pine for what they have not; and they seldom desire anything unless it belongs to others.
Will Durant
#50. Be content with what you have. You have enough to live a happy life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#51. Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
Horace
#52. Regarding children's literature, look for interesting content and well-constructed sentences clothed in literary language. The imagination should be warmed and the book should hold the interest of the child. Life's too short to spend time with books that bore us.
Deborah Taylor-Hough
#53. Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have.
Abhijit Naskar
#54. Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne. "I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads.
L.M. Montgomery
#55. We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
Blaise Pascal
#57. Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles - content with this one thing: that our King [Jesus] will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph.
John Calvin
#58. Faultfinders usually are not content with their own situations in life and therefore try to make others miserable by judging them.
Greg Gordon
#59. If you can be content with who you are, how you look and then try every day to make a difference to someone else, then it leads to a wonderful life. It's a shame more humans can't grasp that fact. - M.K. Clinton
M.K. Clinton
#60. Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.
Vincent Van Gogh
#62. When it's all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face.
Anthony Liccione
#63. Sir 40:18 The life of a laborer that is content with what he hath, shall be sweet, and in it thou shalt find a treasure.
Various
#64. Introverts don't see life as one big cocktail party. We're content with just a few meaningful relationships.
Jenn Granneman
#65. To be able to experience a thousand different lives within my lifetime is something that always appealed to me. I wasn't content with just being one person for the rest of my life.
Douglas Booth
#66. What is important, what isn't important, and how do you clean yourself from all of the unimportant things. And then you can be content, and feel good with life, which is metaphorically speaking, "walking on water."
Eytan Fox
#67. I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.
Bo Bice
#68. Be content with an ordinary life.
Laozi
#69. I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.
Zhuangzi
#70. He had been working with some of them for over fifteen years. It occurred to him that these were people who made up the content of a large proportion of his life. He was now the one who had been working longer than anybody else in the Ystad CID. Once upon a time he'd been the newcomer.
Henning Mankell
#71. Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
George S. Patton Jr.
#72. But most people are content with a life among shadows. They give no thought to what is casting the shadows. They think shadows are all there are, never realizing even that they are, in fact, shadows. And thus they pay no heed to the immortality of their own soul.
Jostein Gaarder
#73. I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.
Sheryl Swoopes
#74. You need to be content with small steps. That's all life is. Small steps that you take every day so when you look back down the road it all adds up and you know you covered some distance. It took me a long time to accept that, but it's true. You need to have patience."",
Katie Kacvinsky
#75. We like to control the map of our life and know everything well in advance. But faith is content just knowing that God's promise cannot fail. This, in fact, is the excitement of walking with God.
Jim Cymbala
#76. Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.
Jaggi Vasudev
#77. Tiny Giggles
Silly giggles of laughter
I store upon a shelf
I give some to other
I save some for myself
I am rich beyond all measure
Though not with worldly wealth
I store up these treasures
For my heart and soulful health.
Muse
#78. A life is well lived when you are content with your condition and gracious for your possessions.
Debasish Mridha
#79. The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.
Adolf Hitler
#80. Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#81. I've never looked through his stuff and I can't explain exactly why it is I'm so incurious. I suppose there are clues about his life there in the shut-up-and-locked room, perhaps even some traces of my mother, but better to be content with ignorance, I've always thought, than haunted by the truth.
Sara Baume
#82. I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I think about poverty and culture and traffic and pollution and crime...
Jon Chopan
#83. I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.
Philip James Bailey
#84. 5Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have,
Anonymous
#85. We must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.
Jane Frances De Chantal
#86. To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
Elisabeth Elliot
#88. I'm seldom restricted by anything because I don't know how to restrict myself. It's a blessing and a curse. I feel a lot of support from people in Iceland, especially from people that are content with themselves and their life.
Olof Arnalds
#89. You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social service that makes your life better.
John Battelle
#90. Be content with yourself, because inside your being you have all the richness.
Debasish Mridha
#91. She influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future. While he was content with the present moment, not caring to know what would be the end of their love
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
#92. For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.
Robert Musil
#93. You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
Zig Ziglar
#94. With quietism like yours one could fill a hundred years with happiness. Whether one showed you an execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#95. Life and death are one. You have life, and life is death. Without death there is no meaning to life. Without life there is no death. Be content with what you have.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#96. To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success.
Cass Gilbert
#97. Follow your heart, don't fear changes. Heart changes its content every second with love.
Debasish Mridha
#98. Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.
Pope Francis
#100. A beautiful life is a life that is content and satisfied with material possessions, and has an abundance of hope, love, laughter, kindness, and compassion.
Debasish Mridha
