Top 100 Quotes About Contentment
#1. Genuine contentment is found in performing tasks that take us out of ourselves, for a purpose greater than ourselves. Only when the personality is subordinated to a higher goal do we attain the serenity we are looking for.
Sydney J. Harris
#2. It's important, no doubt, to understand the person we love. If we cannot manage this, it's necessary, at least, to believe we understand them. I must confess that over the entire eight years I only rarely enjoyed the contentment of the second possibility, let alone the first.
Orhan Pamuk
#3. God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share.
Craig Groeschel
#4. There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#5. Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#6. My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum - what I called emotional sea level - is not
happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.
Andrew Weil
#7. After all, desire is the enemy of contentment.
Lena Dunham
#8. Loneliness is a funny disease. You don't realize how badly you're infected until someone gives you a shot of contentment - and then it wears off
Brigid Kemmerer
#9. Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment.
V. Raymond Edman
#10. Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.
Geoffrey Wood
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
Mark Haddon
#14. 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
#15. Some want to be owned, and some want to be saved. Only some want to exist in the glow of contentment.
Umair Naeem
#16. Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#17. When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama
#18. The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#19. The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being
John Kenneth Galbraith
#20. That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
Sebastian Faulks
#22. Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
Donald Hall
#23. The apostle Paul wrote that he'd learned to be content in whatever circumstances he was in. I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in a loving God.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#24. Give yourself the love and attention you desire, it's the starting point of contentment.
Rob Liano
#25. Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.
Neal A. Maxwell
#26. The sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness. Bodily health, material wealth and companions and friends are three factors for happiness. Contentment is the key that will determine the outcome of your relations with all three of these factors.
Dalai Lama XIV
#27. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Socrates
#28. 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
#29. One of the things Key West teaches is that disappointment and contentment can go together more easily than you would probably imagine.
Laurence Shames
#30. She is holding both hands over her stomach and smiling. It is a primal smile, a primordial smile, a smile of animal contentment - a smile like the smile of a dog with a ball, or a purring cat. It is a smile utterly impossible not to smile back at, and McFadden does.
Scott Gardiner
#31. For the rest of the morning they worked quietly ad steadily, realizing that their contentment here at Uncle Monty's house did not erase their parents' death, not at all, but at least it made them feel better after feeling so sad, for so long.
Lemony Snicket
#32. 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
#33. A large battalion of my thoughts was marching determinedly on its way to Annoyance but it was distracted and took a wrong turn at Adam and found, to its surprise, that it had ended up in the entirely different destination of Dreamy Contentment.
Marian Keyes
#34. (To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)
John Connolly
#35. He said, The main thing that you bring the church is the person that you become, and that's what everybody will see; that's what will get reproduced; that's what people will believe. Arrange your life so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
Dallas Willard
#36. The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
Henry Miller
#37. Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind.
Wolfgang Gullich
#38. Truth - although difficult at times - is eventually the path to contentment and peace.
Maeve Greyson
#39. My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#40. 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
#41. The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security
somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had.
Connie Brockway
#42. Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That's why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine.
Rajneesh
#44. When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
Florence Welch
#45. What contentment brings is greater than what discontentment takes away.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#46. 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
#47. The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
John Piper
#48. For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times.
Michael Chabon
#49. The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell ...
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#50. This is what I would like to hold on to. Please help me memorize this feeling of contentment and help me always support it. I'm putting this happiness in a bank somewhere, not merely FDIC protected but guarded by my four spirit brothers, held there as insurance against future trials in life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#51. Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.
Vikrmn
#52. He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
Jess Walter
#53. 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
#54. Alditha wondered if perhaps the key [to] contentment was not what they had, but seeing the beauty in what they had already been given.
Sarah Holman
#55. If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be.
Shannon L. Alder
#56. Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.
Joyce Meyer
#57. Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J.G. Ballard
#59. Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.
Tom Robbins
#60. Contentment isn't something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it's a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.
A.P. Jensen
#61. But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
Franz Kafka
#63. YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE PROPERTY IN THE WORLD BUT CONTENTMENT WILL ONLY MAKE YOU RICH
Reuben
#64. All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.
Buck Brannaman
#65. There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
Rene Descartes
#66. 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.
Sinclair Lewis
#67. When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#68. He had shrewd, on the spot judgement about human nature. Good sense with good manners and the practice of contentment made up in his view a large part of wisdom.
Theresa Whistler
#69. Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.
Thomas S. Monson
#70. Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it took you so long to realize what you'd been missing.
John Connolly
#71. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.
Sakyong Mipham
#72. It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Vivien Greene
#73. I caught a dream today, in a little place not far from here. Not a dream of fame or fortune, nor one of power and glory, but something more important. I caught a dream of paradise: A paradise of smallmouths, a favorite dog, a clear running stream, and most importantly, contentment. Th
Noey Vineyard
#75. 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
#76. We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.
Jean Liedloff
#77. Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#78. Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release, and for the creative it can take the form of art.
Eric Gibbons
#80. Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.
Kaspar Hauser
#81. When a man is able to be alone he is also able to love. And his love has a totally different quality, a different beauty, a different fragrance to it. It is something divine, it is something of the beyond. It is deeply fulfilling. It brings great contentment.
Rajneesh
#82. I like tea so much that I'm considering changing my name to Bergamot so that I can exist in a perpetual state of Earl Grey contentment.
Fennel Hudson
#83. So many of the people I admired - the musicians, the artists, the writers - created their greatest works not during a period of happiness and contentment, but during a period of struggle.
Adam Braun
#84. I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.
Joe DiMaggio
#85. For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
C.S. Lewis
#86. Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.
Larry Herzberg
#87. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
James K. Polk
#88. True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
Dalai Lama
#89. One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to share her happiness with another soul.
Benyf
#90. We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment.
Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig
#91. There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.
Sarada Devi
#92. 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
#93. The toad beneath the harrow knows
Where every separate tooth-point goes ;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad.
Rudyard Kipling
#94. I began to see that "success" had always been about money, power, survival, or fear, when it should have been about enjoyment and contentment; about enjoying the brief time we all have.
Jeffrey Sands
#95. Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.
David Niven
#96. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
Friedrich Nietzsche
#97. By becoming aware of how you eat your eating will become a rich experience blessed with tasteful flavor, joyful texture, a deep sense of gratitude, and pleasurable contentment.
Ilchi Lee
#98. My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.
Anne Lamott
#99. Without inner-peace and contentment, success will ultimately destroy you.
Bryant McGill
#100. Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
John Milton
