Top 100 Quotes About Contented
#1. For the contented man, lake is an ocean; for the discontented one, ocean is a lake!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. There were a thousand ways to imagine someone unhappy and so few ways to imagine someone contented.
Anna Quindlen
#3. They seemed happy and contented, though," remarked the Wizard, "and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for.
L. Frank Baum
#4. That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes
#5. I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.
Julie Andrews
#6. Likewise, you can't live a truly productive, contented, and joy-filled life while your finances are in complete disarray. A Good Life and financial stability go hand in hand.
Ruth Soukup
#7. Throughout its history, the United States has always had a class system. It is not only directed by the top 1 percent and supported by a contented middle class. We can no longer ignore the stagnant, expendable bottom layers of society in explaining the national identity. The
Nancy Isenberg
#8. What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?
Juvenal
#10. We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.
Harry Stack Sullivan
#12. Since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
Jeremy Taylor
#13. Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
#14. A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.
Zoroaster
#15. A waltz begins, that floating, sweet rhythm. The fiddle is plaintive. A few minutes ago she was at least pleasantly contented. Now certain of the notes dip into her like ladles and come up full of loneliness. The people in the room recede. They are strangers, every one.
Anna Keesey
#16. Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.
Nazr Mohammed
#17. Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.
Thomas Jefferson
#18. Those who believe and their hearts become calm and contented with the remembrance of Allah ... know that it is the remembrance of Allah alone that brings rest to the hearts.
(The Qur'an-surah ar-R'ad;28)
Anonymous
#19. 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
#20. That the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.
Charles Dickens
#21. Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people
is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see
anything but contentment in a crushed population. Waiting, and its
brother death, seem so contented.
Sinclair Lewis
#22. Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.
Robert Baden-Powell
#23. We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not?
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#24. I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
Eric Idle
#25. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.
Norman Vincent Peale
#26. This is going to make such a great story: How I nursed a pirate back to health and my love saved him," Miss Ohio said with a contented sigh. "And then we can have our own reality show about our relationship."
- "Beauty Queens
Libba Bray
#27. No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.
Thurman Arnold
#28. Angels contented with their face in heaven,
Seek not the praise of men.
John Milton
#29. [Mead described the Arapesh as a culture in which both sexes were] placid and contented, unaggressive and noninitiatory, noncompetitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting.
Margaret Mead
#30. Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
Josh Billings
#31. I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
Jack Dee
#32. In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.
Thomas Watson
#33. You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.
Moby
#34. I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.
Michael Gambon
#35. How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green ... the flowers are more fragrant ... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.
Orison Swett Marden
#36. Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.
Dalai Lama
#38. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates
#39. We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#40. I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
William Dobell
#41. And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
Louisa May Alcott
#42. Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
Orson Welles
#43. The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a taste for more refined pleasures; he has never felt the calm and refreshing satisfaction ... of being loved by someone who could understand him.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#44. No more selfishness. Just a balanced, contented, and richly meaningful life.
Fennel Hudson
#45. What ideals, when followed, will bring to you those blessings you so much seek, even a quiet conscience, a peace-filled heart, a loving family, a contented home? May I suggest these three: Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.
Thomas S. Monson
#46. Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.
Satish Kumar
#47. Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry
#48. I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don't have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#49. We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#50. With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.
Francisco Goya
#52. Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it ... a contented spirit.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#53. Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#54. The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that have ever lived have been contented, happy, and honored while in the pursuit of humble trades.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#55. A life built upon Sabbath is contented because in rhythms of rest we discover our time is full of the holiness of God.
Shelly Miller
#56. There's a void inside most people.
It's been created by not being contented with who we are, not being happy with what we have, not being present and looking for something more, better, more exciting out there.
And we've always been trying to fill this void with something external.
Lidiya K.
#57. Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#58. To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.
Edwin A. Abbott
#59. Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.
Rajneesh
#60. If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate.
Breanna Sampson
#61. You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.
Edgar Guest
#62. We lived together like fish in an aquarium, contented because someone threw us food when we needed it, and we could, whenever we wanted to, see the world outside through the glass.
Paulo Coelho
#63. Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#64. How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
Ann Radcliffe
#65. Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
Joseph Sobran
#66. Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
Arthur Christiansen
#67. To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
Jeremy Taylor
#68. The Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented.
Kate Morton
#69. I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.
Alain-Rene Lesage
#70. We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.
William Carey
#71. It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert
#72. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.
Frederick Douglass
#73. To lead happy, contented, peaceful lives, remember all the good times you share with others, forget all the good you do for others.
Rita Zahara
#74. To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
Confucius
#75. You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace
#76. I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain, it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.
Haruki Murakami
#77. Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
Salmon P. Chase
#78. But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
Vitruvius
#79. Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.
William Wordsworth
#80. To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton
#81. Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.
Kate Christensen
#82. A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
Michael Flanders
#83. I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
Karen Carpenter
#84. For me, minimalism is about getting rid of unnecessary clutter (in all areas of life!), organizing what is left, and living in a peaceful, contented state, devoid of the extra stress that too much baggage brings to your life.
Kristen D. Smith
#85. A measure of such things which in any degree falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, although persons are too apt to be contented and think that they need search no further.
Plato
#86. Love leads to ultimate happiness. It is always natural to feel happy and contented when you are with someone you love. If you are full of love in your heart, you are definitely a happy person. Because a heart that loves sees no negative in his surroundings.
Sudayu Hans
#87. Could it be - no one receives the peace of God without giving thanks to God? Is thankfulness really but the deep, contented breath of peacefulness? Is this why God asks us to give thanks even when things look a failure? When there doesn't seem much to give thanks for?
Ann Voskamp
#88. For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
Neil Gaiman
#89. Scandinavians are not only the happiest and most contented people in the world, but also the most peaceful, tolerant, egalitarian, progressive, prosperous, liberal, and technologically advanced.
Anonymous
#90. In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
Alexandre Dumas
#91. Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#92. I awoke on my stomach, naked and tangled in Travis Maddox's sheets. I kept my eyes closed, feeling his fingers caressing my arm and back.
He exhaled with a deep, contented sigh, speaking in a hushed voice. I love you, Abby. I'm going to make you happy, I swear it.
Jamie McGuire
#93. So strong was the preconception of absolute space and time in the scientific mentality of those days, that Lorentz did not realize the grand transcendence of what he had discovered, and contented himself with remodeling the edifice of Physics
instead of rebuilding it with a new foundation.
Felix Alba-Juez
#94. If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#95. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game.
Patrick Rothfuss
#96. How good one feels when one is full
how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Jerome K. Jerome
#97. This is the planet teeming, this place we've come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough.
Christopher Cokinos
#98. Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#99. We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor
#100. Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.
Sarah Josepha Hale
