100 Quotes About Contentment

Ur be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. Dorothy Parker

And besides . . . I don’t want to leave you. Er, you guys.” He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. “Well, ‘we’ are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.”I grinned back. Richelle Mead

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor – such is my idea of happiness. Leo Tolstoy

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of Mankind, the Misanthrope flies from it: He resolves to become an Hermit, and buries himself in the Cavern of some gloomy Rock. While Hate inflames his bosom, possibly He may feel contented with his situation: But when his passions begin to cool; when Time has mellowed his sorrows, and healed those wounds which He bore with him to his solitude, think you that Content becomes his Companion? Ah! no, Rosario. No longer sustained by the violence of his passions, He feels all the monotony of his way of living, and his heart becomes the prey of Ennui and weariness. He looks round, and finds himself alone in the Universe: The love of society revives in his bosom, and He pants to return to that world which He has abandoned. Nature loses all her charms in his eyes: No one is near him to point out her beauties, or share in his admiration of her excellence and variety. Propped upon the fragment of some Rock, He gazes upon the tumbling waterfall with a vacant eye, He views without emotion the glory of the setting Sun. Slowly He returns to his Cell at Evening, for no one there is anxious for his arrival; He has no comfort in his solitary unsavoury meal: He throws himself upon his couch of Moss despondent and dissatisfied, and wakes only to pass a day as joyless, as monotonous as the former. Unknown

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro – he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful – yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth. Unknown

Materialistic things cannot make you truly happy; it’s your faith in God that can bring real satisfaction. And ofcourse, the love you give and receive will fill your life with cheer as well as laughter. Latika Teotia

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. Elizabeth Gilbert

Some don’t want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland and vacuous state of glee and, instead, prefer to keep on running like raging bulls through the whims and quirks of life. In reality, their dissatisfaction is their contentment. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" ) Erik Pevernagie

Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires. Criss Jami

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159). . John Bingham

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations. Criss Jami

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache. Iain Pears

[F]rom my years of understanding .. I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince .. or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death .. could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination .. yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present. . Elizabeth I

Being content to walk with God brings peace in the midst of uncertainty. It brings wisdom in the unknown. It brings contentment in any situation and grace in every circumstance. It brings mercy and forgiveness in sin and blessed assurance in condemnation. It brings freedom from captivity. Walking with God brings light and air into the pit, as God reaches down to rescue us when we fall. Teresa Schultz

Of course, if one does not fully trust the promise of God's Kingdom, he will have a hard time taking risks and making sacrifices in this life. A gospel centered around the temporal self - fleeting happiness, earthly success, vain prosperity, things such as these - is the primary ambition of the half-hearted Christian; the one who somewhat believes he is subject to an eternal death; the one who just might believe in men before God, who morbidly fears seeming less than anyone else. The man of this school feels deeply that he has but one life to live, that this must be his only chance, and therefore must have it all in his favor - from glory to comfort to riches - and have it right this instant. He is but hinting that he is overcome because he insists always that he must overcome, that his judgment comes now and by the persons around him. The point is, however, in this sense, that by grace the Christian is indeed free, but only for as long as he wants to be free - the practicality of true freedom: that of God which offers not so much freedom to be like the world as it does freedom from the pressures of having to be like the world. For Divine Law is based solely on love and freedom; whereas secular law, pressure and imitation. Criss Jami

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us. . Kazuo Ishiguro

Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech the Holy Spirit to turn it out; for if you will always will to do as God wills, you must be happy. I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, "What! ? all this, and Christ too?" What is "all this, " compared with what we deserve? And I have read of someone dying, who was asked if he wished to live or die; and he said, "I have no wish at all about it." "But if you might wish, which would you choose?" "I would not choose at all." "But if God bade you choose?" "I would beg God to choose for me, for I would not know which to take." Oh happy state! to be perfectly acquiescent, to lie passive in His hand, and know no will but His. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator. Rajasaraswathii

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy. Criss Jami

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough. Walt Whitman

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for. Charles Dickens

What do we advertise about You by how we serve? Do we reflect the belief shown in Jesus’ parable that You are a hard master taking what isn’t Yours? Forgive us for even brief lapses into such churlishness. Or, do we reflect a joy in serving that radiates from an intimate and time-tested knowledge of the goodness of the One we serve? Paul and Daniel were confident of this sovereign goodness even when they were prisoners rather than courtiers, and we can likewise tap into a joy that defies circumstances. When this happens, the oft-disappointed world will notice and investigate.11/02/2010 blog . Brian Eshleman

Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective. Germany Kent

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize. Rasheed Ogunlaru

The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence. Lailah Gifty Akita

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence. Criss Jami

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow. Criss Jami

Life is your greatest asset. Lailah Gifty Akita

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have. Criss Jami

I may not have riches but I have great life. Lailah Gifty Akita

We must not only aim to make a living but to live life. Lailah Gifty Akita

A merciful heart beats contently stronger than many vengeful ones Munia Khan

In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness Rasheed Ogunlaru

Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return. Munia Khan

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare. Criss Jami

Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment. Vikrmn

Opportunities do not come in fancy wrappers; only toffees do which give just temporary contentment. Toil to unwrap the real one, covered in hardships. Vikrmn

When you see your feet with no footwear, also see those with no feet. Amit Kalantri

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one's ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one's share. Amit Kalantri

You can be happy irrespective of what you have. Lailah Gifty Akita

If you have life, you have everything. Lailah Gifty Akita

You do not need many possessions to have a happy life. Lailah Gifty Akita

You have enough to share with the world; the gift of love, kindness, goodness, smiles, hugs, prayer, inspiration, fellowship, volunteerism and many more. Lailah Gifty Akita

You can live without many wants. Lailah Gifty Akita

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough Walt Whitman

All roads out of hell lead home. Shannon L. Alder

Until I was left with nothing but life and books, I realised these two gracious gifts, where enough for me to exist. Lailah Gifty Akita

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment Millen Livis

Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom she could share all parts of her life, someone to be her equal and her inspiration. Emily Arden

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa). Criss Jami

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief. Michael Bassey Johnson

Thankfulness is the life of contentment. Lailah Gifty Akita

Compare your life only with the commandments of God.Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you. Lailah Gifty Akita

I am living my dreams. Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T. Mandy Hale

Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered. Mandy Hale

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After. Mandy Hale

Contentment is the joy of life Lailah Gifty Akita

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy. Criss Jami

Imagined happiness is still happiness. Richelle E. Goodrich

Live by your own sacred standard. Lailah Gifty Akita

Be grateful for what you have and you will always have enough. Lailah Gifty Akita

Living life with contentment is the greatest well-being. Lailah Gifty Akita

Contentment is the greatest joy. Lailah Gifty Akita

If you stay open to the wisdom of your Muse, you may discover you’re a playwright, a sculptor, a kitchen-table comedian, a beacon of creative kindness, or a person who chooses grace over ego and contentment over greed. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you’ll truly be an artist of being alive. Jill Badonsky

Never envy others. Be happy and love your work. Lailah Gifty Akita

The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life. Lailah Gifty Akita

Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy! Israelmore Ayivor

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy. Megan Carson

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath. Richelle E. Goodrich