True Contentment Quotes

#1. The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

T.D. Jakes

#2. It holds my essential stuff, including a book - for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit, my friends, into one's pocket[ ... ]

Michael Chabon

#3. Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. True contentment comes with empathy.

Tim Finn

#7. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Charles Caleb Colton

#8. For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times.

Michael Chabon

#9. I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

Criss Jami

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

Laozi

#11. Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment.

Simon Boylan

#12. True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

Oscar Wilde

#13. True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. Maybe that's the definition of true contentment: choosing to rest in who God is, regardless of the circumstances.

Stephanie Rische

#15. Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Plato

#16. True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that

Emily Giffin

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. True happiness isn't a disruption-free life, its learning to recognize the ever-present contentment amidst the disruptions of life. Go with the flow(non-resistance), and when you struggle, remember to be compassionate with yourself...

Maximus Freeman

#21. Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

James Patterson

#22. A thankful and a contented spirit is a continual feast. We ought to be contented, and we shall be contented, if we are in the habit of seeing God in everything, and living upon Him day by day. Oh, for a spirit of true thankfulness!

Ashton Oxenden

#23. Pleasures that we seek are not Happiness at its peak ... for it is Contentment that gives True fulfillment.-RVM

R.v.m.

#24. True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#25. True happiness lies within you.

Og Mandino

#26. Episodes is about discovery of one's psyche and true personality while being completely absorbed in one's one Mind and thoughts. A story of coping and finding an unsure contentment. Finding the Rational Soul in all of us.

Rodney Richards

#27. With you it's different, There isn't a catostrophic emotion of endorphines, but there is a silent feeling of contentment & peace. I won't deny I have my fears, but your worth the discovery.

Nikki Rowe

#28. Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent.-RVM

R.v.m.

#29. True happiness is the contentment of soul, and the joy of inner heart.

Flora D.

#30. True peace cannot be found in a 'place'. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any 'place'.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.

Wilfred Thesiger

#32. Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

John Powell

#33. It is downright incredible that an extremely significant proportion of people make the wrong choice. But the good news is that we can course-correct at any stage in our life and get back on the path to finding true happiness and contentment.

Lamees Alhassar

#34. Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

Ally Condie

#35. One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

Dalai Lama

#36. If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you. You'll never be happy and you'll never be content. The only really contentment or true happiness is with Christ.

Mark Teixeira

#37. 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

#38. True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.

Robert Thurman

#39. That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

Saint John Chrysostom

#40. True affluence is not needing anything.

Gary Snyder

#41. The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

Bill Vaughan