“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it… — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
“Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.” — Larry Herzberg Copy Share Image
Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to… — Hafez Copy Share Image
Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness. — Bill Gothard Copy Share Image
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between happiness and contentment?" “Well, happy is like when somebody gives you a big hunk of something wonderful… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I have learned, we are not our happiest when we get what we want-- then we are prone to pick-- aware of… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul,… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
“Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
All power is God's power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Honesty and contentment are the pathways that lead to a life of integrity and generosity.” — Gary Rohrmayer Copy Share Image
Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
If man wishes to put an end to suffering,he must eradicate his own selfishness and cultivate contentment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Contentment is where God is. So, is just God good enough?! Have a dream, but enjoy the journey on the way to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“When what you have looks like nothing remember God gives you your future first!” — Kingsley Opuwari Manuel Copy Share Image
“When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.” — Dr Paul Enenche Copy Share Image
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment. — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
I'm not popular but I have good friends. I'm not rich but I have what I need. Sometimes I'm not liked but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and… — John Balguy Copy Share Image
Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“Don’t look at the person who has it all. Look to the person who doesn’t need it all.” — Toyin Omofoye Copy Share Image
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