Quotes About Self Contented

#1. Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy..

Edwin A. Abbott

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life. Be contented, then, in everything, with being a philosopher; and if you with to seem so likewise to any one, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you.

Epictetus

#5. 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

#6. I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!

Aesop

#7. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Phillips Brooks

#8. The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. - Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

Tom Standage

#9. My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.

Robert Southwell

#10. You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

Louisa May Alcott

#11. Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

Martin Luther

#12. The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

James Freeman Clarke

#13. We glorify God, by being contented in that state in which Providence has placed us. We give God the glory of his wisdom, when we rest satisfied with what he carves out to us.

Anonymous

#14. Time, the destroyer of every affection, wore away my unpleasant feelings, and I became as contented as before. We

James E. Seaver

#15. Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

Virginia Gildersleeve

#17. Be contented with the things of the present. The cows and the dogs are, and so are all animals; and that is what makes them animals. So if man rests content with the present and gives up all search into the beyond, mankind will have to go back to the animal plane again.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

William Shakespeare

#19. Virtue may choose the high or low degree,
'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me;
Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king,
She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

Alexander Pope

#20. [T]o a limited being its limited understanding is not felt to be a limitation; on the contrary, it is perfectly happy and contented with this understanding[.]

Ludwig Feuerbach

#21. Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

Barbara Mertz

#23. If I become content by having my desire satisfied, that is only self-love; but when I am contented with the hand of God and am willing to be at His disposal, that comes from my love to God.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#24. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Louisa May Alcott

#25. The act of gaining true insights from self - reflection is a futile action for most ... as there are easy way out things like self justification, rationalization, delusions and denial which keeps us away from our true self, the inner core and thus we live contented

Anubhav Mishra

#26. Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#27. Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

Dalai Lama

#28. His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep body and soul together.

Roger Housden

#29. Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart?"
"No," said Dagny, "I don't.

Ayn Rand

#30. I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

L.M. Montgomery

#31. The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.

Felix Dennis

#32. Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#33. most dogs seemed contented enough, and often seemed rather happier than the humans attached to them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#34. Be contented with the things of the world. Develop greed for God.

Radhe Maa

#35. It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

Bliss Carman

#36. I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

Henry David Thoreau

#37. Happiness is being contented with what you got-- so get enough.

Dik Browne

#38. Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much."
Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky.

George Eliot

#39. The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Thomas Jefferson

#40. Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.

Chanakya

#41. In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man.

Henry Highland Garnet

#42. A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Ann Plato

#43. I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#44. One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;
For all such vain wishes in him were prevented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.

Jane Taylor

#45. Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Thomas Carlyle

#46. And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

Hart Crane

#47. 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

#48. Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please ... It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

Gretchen Rubin

#49. The domestic cat is a bit of a contradiction. It freely accepts human friendship while never allowing even the most contented life to dim its sense of who it is and what it is capable of.

Ellen Dugan

#50. The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#51. Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.

Plutarch

#52. How happy he, who free from care
The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air,
In his own grounds

Alexander Pope