Top 89 Your Contentment Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
Richard Paul Evans
#3. Your inner growth is completely dependent upon the realization that the only way to find peace and contentment is to stop thinking about yourself.
Michael A. Singer
#4. Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.
Gautama Buddha
#5. There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there. Once you move your identity to that level of deep inner contentment, you will realize you are drawing upon a Life that is much larger than your own and from a deeper abundance.
Richard Rohr
#6. Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
Alain De Botton
#7. As we continue to look for "developmental deficiencies" in our maturation in Christ, how are you doing in the area of contentment? How quick is your impulse to find satisfaction in Christ, to go to the joy of the gospel in times of stress, frustration, disappointment, and trouble?
Matt Chandler
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.
Hannah More
#12. When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.
Tom Althouse
#13. I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.
Elizabeth Berg
#14. 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
#15. Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return.
Munia Khan
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.
Chloe Thurlow
#21. 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
#22. Oscar may be the world's most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.
Abhijit Naskar
#24. If you have contentment in your heart,
you are the richest person in the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. Inattention to he world's ecological state is well advised. Because attention to it mitigates against your happiness, contentment your sense of well being.
Stephen Jenkinson
#26. Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
Dennis E. Adonis
#27. There is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent ...
Jeremiah Burroughs
#28. The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment
Ayya Khema
#29. To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#30. The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.
Osho
#31. Life is messy though, you know? Sometimes it's worth it to jump in and get your hands dirty. Happiness and contentment don't come along very often, so when they do, you need to hold on with everything you've got. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out, but at least you can say you tried.
Cate Ashwood
#32. Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.
Stephen Richards
#35. Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey.
Harry Papas
#36. If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.
Democritus
#39. No matter what you're facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.
Elizabeth George
#40. May your past be a pleasant memory, Your future filled with delight and mystery, Your now a glorious moment, That fills your life with deep contentment.
Kate Morton
#41. While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#42. To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue [ ... ]
George Eliot
#43. Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem
Kahlil Gibran
#44. Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.
Gary Hopkins
#45. The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.
Aleksandar Hemon
#46. It's like getting an extraordinary meal after you've been eating junk food for a long time. The taste just sweeps through your sensibilities, bringing all-out contentment, and the sheer goodness of it makes up for every bad meal you ever had.
Joan Bauer
#47. Examine your attitudes toward food, clothes, and shelter. By reducing expectations you will promote contentment.
Dalai Lama XIV
#48. What is the difference between happiness and contentment?"
"Well, happy is like when somebody gives you a big hunk of something wonderful and it's too big to hold. So you pull off a piece from time to time to hold in your hand. that's being contented. anyway, that's the way i look at it.
Betty Smith
#49. Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.
Charles Frazier
#51. 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
#53. Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
Gary Zukav
#58. Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#59. Compare your life only with the commandments of God.
Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. 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
#61. Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
J. Maarten Troost
#62. All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.
Buck Brannaman
#63. 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
#64. Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.
Vikrmn
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.
Charles Dickens
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. You can improve your overall vibration just by improving your paradigm. For example, if you are hopeless then feel contentment for a while. When you are sad change your state by going out for a walk or meditating.
Hina Hashmi
#74. Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#75. Contentment alone is enough Indeed, the bliss of eternity can be found in your contentment
Lao-Tzu
#76. There's a way,
a way way too long but reachable,
not for everyone a way but possible ...
Go and don't lose your way!
Rossana Condoleo
#77. Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.
N.D. Wilson
#78. Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.
David Gerrold
#79. There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
Augustine Of Hippo
#80. If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.
Shya Kane
#81. Depression, anger, and sadness are states of mind, and so are happiness, peace, and contentment. You can choose to be in any of these states because it's your mind.
Maddy Malhotra
#82. Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.
Rajneesh
#83. People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#84. Success for me is simply empowerment to realize your humanity and then perhaps you achieve contentment. Wealth, power and fame are trappings rather than indicators of success.
Joseph V. Angeles
#85. 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
#86. God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.
Anthony Liccione
#87. It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.
Maureen Corrigan
#88. Real joy, the kind that permeates your life and brings contentment to your soul comes from service. So no, happiness is not the word. Purpose. Contentment. Joy. To find those things, don't seek happiness. Search instead for those who need your gift and give it away.
Mia Sheridan
#89. 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
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