Inner contentment liberates the soul

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass

I may not have everything I want in life but I have all I will ever need to make my life complete, my family.

— Anonymous

If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand…

— Tom Krause

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,…

— Maria Edgeworth

“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?…

— George Gissing

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is…

— William Shakespeare

Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more

— Marianette Carbito

Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have.

— Anonymous

“I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were…

— Jennie Rooney

I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your…

— Vincent de Paul

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

— Merle Shain

Stop complaining and start accepting, everything happens for a reason, you may not notice the importance of the things that you have now, but…

— Hemantsmarty

True intimacy is the experience of real acceptance and authentic vulnerability without feeling the need to apologize or fear rejection. The freedom to just…

— Jordan Blake Michiels