Contentment famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni -
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
-- Abu Bakr -
Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
-- Alain de Botton -
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 -
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
-- Alan Bennett -
For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
-- Alan Watts -
The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
-- Alexander Pope -
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
-- Alexander Pope -
Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.
-- Alistair Begg -
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
-- Ann Brashares -
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 -
Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
-- Bernie Siegel -
When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
-- Beverly LaHaye -
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
-- Bill Bailey -
Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
-- Bill Gothard -
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 -
But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.
-- Billy Collins -
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-- Bob Iger -
Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral, as we seek greater and greater gratification but find less and less contentment. . . . Striving to acquire the things of the world not only does not bring lasting happiness and peace, but it drives us to seek more. When "all we've ever wanted" is grounded in the temporal trappings of this world, it is never enough!
-- Brent L. Top -
I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
-- Brian Swimme -
Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that connects us as humans. We're looking for the same sorts of contentment in our lives and while some people are searching a little harder than others, we're not all that different.
-- Buck Brannaman -
All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.
-- Buck Brannaman -
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
-- Carolyn Wells -
Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.
-- Celia Thaxter -
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
-- Charles Dickens -
Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.
-- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz -
When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want.....If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.
-- Cheri Huber -
Don't confuse contentment with happiness...
-- Chris Wooding -
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.
-- Christian Scriver -
I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same...
-- Claude Monet -
Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.
-- Cornelia Parker -
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
-- Dalai Lama -
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.
-- Dalai Lama -
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 -
I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
-- Daniel Tammet -
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
-- David A. Bednar -
Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.
-- David Gerrold -
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 -
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.
-- David Shi -
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
-- Dawn Powell -
If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.
-- Democritus -
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
-- Denis Waitley -
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 Adonis -
...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
-- Dodie Smith -
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
-- Donald Miller -
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
-- Doug Larson -
Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey -
The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
-- Elizabeth Strout -
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
-- Ellen Glasgow -
When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.
-- Elliot Perlman -
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
-- Ellis Peters -
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
-- Epictetus -
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
-- Epictetus -
Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.
-- Frank A. Clark -
Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.
-- Frank Delaney -
It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.
-- Frederick William Robertson -
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
-- Gautama Buddha -
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
-- George Edward Woodberry -
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
-- Georges Rodenbach -
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
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 -
Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.
-- Harbhajan Singh -
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
-- Harold Brodkey -
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
-- Haruki Murakami -
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 our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.
-- Heber J. Grant -
Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
-- Hermann Hesse -
No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.
-- Howard Stringer -
I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.
-- Hume Cronyn -
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 -
There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
-- J. I. Packer -
I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.
-- James MacDonald -
You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.
-- Jennifer Crusie -
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 -
To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.
-- Jeremiah Burroughs -
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 -
Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.
-- Jerry Bridges -
The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God
-- Jerry Bridges -
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
-- Jess Walter -
I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.
-- Jhonen Vasquez
