Find Contentment Quotes

#1. If we are to find contentment in the midst of trial and uncertainty, we must accept our situation as being purposely allowed into our lives by a personal and loving God.

Linda Dillow

#2. And so, one bit one's nails, unable to find contentment in the simple beating of one's heart ... one smoked, unable to be satisfied with the rhythm of one's brain ...

Kobo Abe

#3. I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

Brian Swimme

#4. While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#5. Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment.

Lorna Jackie Wilson

#6. The problem is that "bad men obey their lusts as servants obey their masters," and because they cannot control their desires, they can never find contentment.4

William B. Irvine

#7. Regardless of whether we live in the East or the West, whether we are rich or poor, we must find contentment with what God has given.

Linda Dillow

#8. 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

#9. Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

John Milton

#10. The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

Jerry Bridges

#11. She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

Lyle W. Dorsett

#12. It's peculiar, to reach your destination," he told me. "You think you'll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment. Instead you get there and find distance still to go.

Leif Enger

#13. 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

#14. Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Guy Finley

#15. Who would have ever thought I'd find love, contentment and joy in a prison cell, but I did. I knew that I knew that I knew that day, I'd been released, and I thought to myself, "I need to tell everyone about this" because no one had ever told me.

Christian Hosoi

#16. If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

Elliot Perlman

#20. 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

#21. Without satisfaction, he will find no contentment, and without contentment, he will find no joy.

R.A. Salvatore

#22. Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

Kevin Kelly

#23. As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

Walter Savage Landor

#24. One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#25. 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

#26. You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers

Binye Vincent

#27. our lot is to fear God and find our contentment in his providence,

Douglas Bond

#28. I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

James E. Faust

#29. I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

Hume Cronyn

#30. Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

T.D. Jakes

#31. In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.

Tami Hoag

#32. Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Alexander McCall Smith

#33. As we continue to look for "developmental deficiencies" in our maturation in Christ, how are you doing in the area of contentment? How quick is your impulse to find satisfaction in Christ, to go to the joy of the gospel in times of stress, frustration, disappointment, and trouble?

Matt Chandler

#34. If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

Laozi

#35. Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person, and find them still.

Julian Barnes

#36. 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

#37. 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