Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily. — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still… — Dennis E Adonis Copy Share Image
“We exist in the world, yet we live in the mind. When it becomes still, we leave longing behind.” — Glenn A. Maltais 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
My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment… — Andrew Weil 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
Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that we are connected and we… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
“If we wished to gain contentment, we might try such rules as these: 1. Allow thyself to complain of nothing, not even… — Edward Bouverie Pusey Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a moment where you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you were in the right place?… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“people always think that happiness is a far away thing, something complicated and hard to get. yet, little things can make it… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Blessings upon your mind and heart. Let openness, trust and love be your first response. This is the secret to everlasting joy,… — Mooji Copy Share Image
I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And,… — John Gay Copy Share Image
We should never be satisfied,or settled, with the way things are going because that's when our fire to blaze a positive path… — Michael Gary Wesley Copy Share Image
If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must… — Linda Dillow Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a life time to realize what you or someone has/had. You cannot help, they need to realize themselves. Point… — Jade Surette Copy Share Image
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“you want most of all (see Psalm 84:11). Paul admitted that he had to “learn” the secret of contentment in every situation.… — R. T. Kendall Copy Share Image
A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from… — David Shi Copy Share Image
I met many kind of people in my life,but the richest people is not the happiest people and the happiest people is… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
