Contentment Quotes

1,356 quotes from 705 authors

When you’re searching for that quiet sense of satisfaction, the voices here span centuries and cultures. From philosophers to poets, each line captures a nuance of contentment—whether it’s rooted in simple daily moments or deeper life philosophies. Browse the collection to see how 705 different minds articulate the art of feeling enough.

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“Gratitude is a way of contentment.”

Miss Brit

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Contentment is a pearl of great price

John Balguy

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Contentment is knowing you're right

Bill Bailey

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True contentment comes with empathy.

Tim Finn

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Contentment is the only real wealth

Alfred Nobel

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we're all golden sunflowers inside.

Allen Ginsberg

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Be satisfied with what you have.

Aesop

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True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that make's happiness

Charles Spurgeon

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“Smiling is a state of inner contentment. So smile.”

Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

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Contentment does not come from achievement.

Paul Henderson

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If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.

Mary Roach

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That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

Saint John Chrysostom

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“Inner contentment liberates the soul”

Mukesh Kwatra

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Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Alain-Rene Lesage

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Contentment is what , that can give you peaceful sleep every night .

Rajendra Kumar

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Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's…

Bob Brown

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Richness is not earning more, spending more or saving more.. richness is when you need no more!

Ritu Ghatourey

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“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Give love ~ receive love~ be love~ embrace love and you will find true contentment

Sam Brown

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A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

David A. Bednar

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“She'd never known true contentment before now. She had waited her whole life for someone to set her free.”

Kendall Grey

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Life is to good, that even if we don't exactly get what we want in life, we will realize that what we…

Anonymous

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“Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives.”

Kamand Kojouri

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I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our…

James E. Faust

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Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the…

John Dalton

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The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest…

Martin Luther

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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of…

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come…

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not…

Friedrich Nietzsche

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“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough…

Chad Harbach

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Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every…

David Niven

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“44. Abidement Bullshit money or basic freedoms: which is dearer? Contentment or competition: which is more valuable? Compensation or employment: which is…

The Church of the Latter-Day Dude