We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small,… — Nathaniel Cotton Copy Share Image
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man… — John Donne Copy Share Image
You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated, or being perfect...It is about being real, being humble, being… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Life isn't about having, it's about being. You could surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
“I’m as good as you is a useful means for the destruction of democratic societies. But it has a far deeper value… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is… — Guru Angad Copy Share Image
We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“Thereafter the summer passed in routine contentment. Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Healing was a terrifying and painful experience and my life was as full of struggle and heartache as it had always been.… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If we wish to gain contentment we might try these rules”: • Allow ourselves to complain of nothing, not even the weather.… — Marilyn Wilson Copy Share Image
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The World Offers A Lot, But Even Having them All.. Won't Ensure Our Contentment. What We Value, Defines Our Happiness. What We… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Materialism doesn't matter I love you, let's live for laughter Make a maneuver Avoid being apart of consumerism consuming consumers Just be… — Andrew Edward Lucier Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes,… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience,… — Thomas Conklin Copy Share Image
Move inwards! Contentment is a quality of your center; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who… — Michel de Montaigne 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
“Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment, in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart. By simply relaxing… — Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Copy Share Image
It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“There was a man with tongue of wood who essayed to sing, and in truth it was lamentable; but there was one… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
