Contentment Quotes

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

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.

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.

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

True humility is contentment.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

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.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

True contentment comes with empathy.

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