Top 54 Heart Contentment Quotes
#1. Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#2. True happiness is the contentment of soul, and the joy of inner heart.
Flora D.
#3. Happiness is the contentment in the heart, peace of mind, a sense of stability, a right attitude and being content with what is sufficient.
Moazzam Shaikh
#4. If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.
L. Frank Baum
#5. Only pain makes it grow stronger. One sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it. The heart is perverse, and it is cruel. I hate the heart and seems to hate me.
Douglas Coupland
#6. The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.
P.G. Wodehouse
#7. We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
Luc De Clapiers
#8. A merciful heart beats contently stronger than many vengeful ones
Munia Khan
#9. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.
Noah Levine
#11. One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to share her happiness with another soul.
Benyf
#12. 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
#13. So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#14. 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.
Christian Scriver
#15. I had come alive here ... this was my home, and though one day it would all trickle through my fingers like so much red dust, for as long as childhood lasted it was a heaven fitted exactly to me. A place I knew by heart. The one place in the world I'd been made for.
Paula McLain
#16. May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
William Shenstone
#17. Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.
Vikrmn
#18. He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.
Anna Godbersen
#19. I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning - raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.
Irene Hunt
#20. It is this spiritual stability, born of a gospel-focused heart, that gives Paul peace and contentment - and yes, joy - no matter where he finds himself.
Matt Chandler
#21. 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
#23. Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.
Charles L. Allen
#24. I don't understand the human heart. Only pain makes it grow stronger. Only sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it.
Douglas Coupland
#25. When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided.
Shannon L. Alder
#26. Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.
Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
#27. Yea, if a man possess all things he cannot be content, - the greater his possessions the less will be his contentment, for the heart cannot be satisfied with possessions, but rather in detachment from all things and in poverty of spirit.
San Juan De La Cruz
#28. it doesn't matter how old you are, how old your child was when he or she died, or the particular manner of your child's death; the hole in your heart never heals over. You can function in life, but you are doomed to fall far short of that contentment which had once been available to you. Soon
David Bagby
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.
Jerry Bridges
#32. Blessings upon your mind and heart. Let openness, trust and love be your first response. This is the secret to everlasting joy, peace and contentment.
Mooji
#33. If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within your means.
Heber J. Grant
#34. A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
James E. Faust
#35. When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.
Tom Althouse
#36. Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream,
Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd;
The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam
Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.
James Gates Percival
#37. Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#38. Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope, and lasting contentment of heart.
Paul David Tripp
#39. I couldn't possibly love you any more than I already do. Josephine, my heart resides with you forevermore." He remembers the quote on the back of my mother's watch. The same quote my father said to my mother. My heart squeezes painfully and I swear I could die of contentment.
J.L. Mac
#40. Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return.
Munia Khan
#41. At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds
Michael Dorris
#42. 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
#43. 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
#45. Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people's unique worth. It also steals contentment from the heart. Is there anything or anyone you are envious of?
Charles R. Swindoll
#46. 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
#47. If you have contentment in your heart,
you are the richest person in the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.
Thomas Watson
#49. 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
#50. The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment
Ayya Khema
#51. Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#52. Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.
Linda Dillow
#53. Contentment celebrates grace. The contended heart is satisfied with the Giver and is therefore freed from craving the next gift.
Paul David Tripp
#54. The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
Ameen Rihani
