Top 100 Contentment Life Quotes
#1. People were unable to appreciate the worth of what was profound and stable which provided them with a safe anchor, so ruminated Mahendra. On the other hand, people foolishly ran after what was ephemeral and deceptive which gave one no real contentment - life's most desirable prize!
Sukhendu Ray
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. It's probably the best memory I have from my whole life. Just waiting to see some dolphins that never came.
Xo
#5. I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
Daniel Tammet
#6. Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
Alain De Botton
#8. The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity ... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.
Woodrow Wilson
#9. It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.
Nicholas Sparks
#10. If we do the work with the intention to grow and be beneficial to others rather than use the work as a means for getting the next buzz in life, we'll live in contentment rather than suffering.
Cameron Alborzian
#11. It doesn't matter whether you do small or big Job; what matters is job Contentment.
Mohith Agadi
#13. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy.
Daphne Du Maurier
#14. By living a life based on wisdom and truth, one can discover the divinity of the soul, its union to the universe, the supreme peace and contentment which comes from satisfying the inner drive for self discovery.
Muata Ashby
#15. 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
#16. As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Anthony Trollope
#17. Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.
Dalai Lama
#18. I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.
Elizabeth Berg
#19. Did it really have to be like this?that the source of Man's contentment becomes the source of his misery?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#20. Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.
Priscilla Shirer
#21. He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.
Anthony Bourdain
#22. Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?
Malcolm Bradbury
#23. 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
#24. In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with things as they were. His chronic restlessness had fled. He wanted nothing new. He wanted only to hang on to what he had. It was almost excruciating.
Chad Harbach
#28. 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
#29. Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.
T.D. Jakes
#30. The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.
Anthony Liccione
#32. Just resign yourself to the fact that you're going to be miserable so you can finally be happy. (It's a sound theory if you think about it hard enough.)
Richelle E. Goodrich
#33. I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
Criss Jami
#35. In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
#36. Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
Leo Tolstoy
#38. Life is messy though, you know? Sometimes it's worth it to jump in and get your hands dirty. Happiness and contentment don't come along very often, so when they do, you need to hold on with everything you've got. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out, but at least you can say you tried.
Cate Ashwood
#39. Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.
Ellen J. Barrier
#40. Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
Dawn Powell
#41. Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#42. My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.
Steve "Lips" Kudlow
#43. The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.
Charles William Eliot
#44. No matter what you're facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.
Elizabeth George
#45. I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
Harold Brodkey
#46. May your past be a pleasant memory, Your future filled with delight and mystery, Your now a glorious moment, That fills your life with deep contentment.
Kate Morton
#47. Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment.
Mehek Bassi
#49. The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.
Aleksandar Hemon
#50. Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small joys-- of love and occasional peace in a life that was full of pain.
Peter Heller
#51. Squatted beside the fire, with the warmth of it upon his face and hands, he felt a smug contentment that seemed strangely out of place
the contentment of a man who had reduced his needs to the strictly basic
and with the contentment came a full-bodied confidence that was just as out of place.
Clifford D. Simak
#52. Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.
Richard Llewellyn
#54. When we turn life's little pleasures into remedies for life's troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.
Lydia Brownback
#55. All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#56. Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment
Millen Livis
#58. Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.
Arthur Nersesian
#59. The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude
Satish Kumar
#60. My dad's contentment is all that matters to me. When he's laughing, I'm laughing. When he's happy, I'm happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.
Rebecah McManus
#61. The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
Gary Zukav
#62. Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.
W. Phillip Keller
#63. Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.
Mandy Hale
#64. Compare your life only with the commandments of God.
Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#65. Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
Oprah Winfrey
#66. People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.
Anthony Liccione
#67. It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
Bernie Siegel
#68. Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.
Joyce Meyer
#69. I have come to feel that the essence of life is not what it so often seems to be - working to have, working to get, working to possess. It's about becoming. It's about what's happening inside us.
Mary Ellen Edmunds
#70. Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know ...
John Geddes
#72. The "with God" life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a life of inner peace and contentment for your soul with the maker and manager of the universe. The "without God" life is the opposite. It is death. It will kill your soul.
John Ortberg
#73. 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
#74. The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
Henry Miller
#75. My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean "fine" or "basically satisfied." I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.
Meghan Daum
#76. Everything we encounter in life is an opportunity to choose God and in turn become more like Him in the process. Quick contentment fixes are corner cutters; when we cut the corner and cut the process, we miss what God wants to do.
Joshua Stannard
#77. There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose tirelessly pursued.
Steve Maraboli
#78. There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
Haruki Murakami
#79. The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.
Meher Baba
#80. If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must make the choice to dwell on the positive aspects of our role in life. If we don't we'll be discontent, always wanting something different from what we've been given.
Linda Dillow
#81. Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#82. True happiness isn't a disruption-free life, its learning to recognize the ever-present contentment amidst the disruptions of life. Go with the flow(non-resistance), and when you struggle, remember to be compassionate with yourself...
Maximus Freeman
#83. 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.
Thich Thien-An
#84. Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.
N.D. Wilson
#85. I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter.
Jonathan Franzen
#86. Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.
David Gerrold
#87. It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.
Frederick William Robertson
#89. In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
#91. Christian culture has too often offered women a push toward contentment that can numb us to our own desires, without offering the tools to discern whether those desires could be good or Holy-Spirit-inspired.
Katelyn Beaty
#93. People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#94. We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.
Immanuel Kant
#95. Initially, the positive emotions derived from cultivating our higher natures may be weak, but we can enhance them through constant familiarity, making our experiences of happiness and inner contentment far more powerful than a life abandoned to purely impulsive emotions.
Dalai Lama XIV
#96. She was moved by a kind of commiseration ... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.
Kate Chopin
#97. I want true love in this life, and true contentment and peace. But maybe the only way I can find those things is to let go of the belief that this life is my reality.
Elizabeth Kim
#98. There comes a time in one's life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.
Fennel Hudson
#99. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
#100. Real joy, the kind that permeates your life and brings contentment to your soul comes from service. So no, happiness is not the word. Purpose. Contentment. Joy. To find those things, don't seek happiness. Search instead for those who need your gift and give it away.
Mia Sheridan
