“Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?” — Anonymous Bushman Copy Share Image
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Loving someone doesn't mean you have to be together. Sometimes you just have to be friends and be contented with the connection… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian. — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Alditha wondered if perhaps the key [to] contentment was not what they had, but seeing the beauty in what they had already… — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment. — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money… — Breanna Sampson Copy Share Image
Insecurity is like a cancer that little by little will destroy your personality.Just be yourself and you will be healthy. — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment. — Hume Cronyn Copy Share Image
Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
You probably woke up with a few aches and pains this morning, but you woke up. You've seen better days, but you've… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life…… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
True intimacy is the experience of real acceptance and authentic vulnerability without feeling the need to apologize or fear rejection. The freedom… — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
“A weird sort of contentment in those days. No appointments, no invitations for dinner, no program, no dough. The golden period, when… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have… — Steve "Lips" Kudlow Copy Share Image
“She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far. The key to contentment was… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Jesus said in His most remarkable sermon ever: "For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“If happiness is determined by expectations, then two pillars of our society – mass media and the advertising industry – may unwittingly… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“People make themselves unhappy by desiring and praising only one thing, by becoming too one-sided in trying to find contentment. If we… — Adalbert Stifter Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image