“If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Your goal should be to find contentment in a life well lived knowing that you left the world a better place than… — Bill Vickers Copy Share Image
“Contentment and Happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may not look the same as today, no matter how much you try to control it, all you need right now… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more… — Elise Blackwell Copy Share Image
“We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The bigger the challenge, the greater risk I'll take, the more contented I am. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The people you will love in your lifetime will give you certain things, different things. And those different things will shape you,… — Lee Fullbright Copy Share Image
“Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
The Truth is that contentment is not found in having everything we think we want but in choosing to be satisfied with… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
“She gets that. So she lies down on her side of Innon, and Alabaster lies down on his side, and they relax… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
In my own personal life, it's been pretty hard navigating love, and so I've found this kind of contentment in loving myself… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Oh the joy of an idée fixe! The contentment of a life taken up some ideal, any ideal! A gentle trap to… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There is a popular heresy abroad today which states that if a little is good, more is better. Following this dictum creates… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children… — Maxine Hancock Copy Share Image
Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So many developments are yet to take place in life. Let us hope that they are to happen for good. One is… — Chandrababu VS Copy Share Image
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Home is the place we should return to with eager spirits, the journey's end we reach with sighs of contentment.” — Karen Burton Mains Copy Share Image
It's natural that when one attained self contentment in life, he/she is inclined to engage with positive thoughts only. — Chandrababu VS Copy Share Image
“Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment. — Julianne MacLean Copy Share Image
The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values¦ The best things in life feel like we… — Harold J Duarte-Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The pleasures that we seek are not happiness at its peak, for it is contentment that gives true fulfillment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
