The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment. — Michael Neill Copy Share Image
It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question". — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Don't Spoil What You Have By Desiring What You Don't Have... Because What You Have Now, Is One Of The Many Things… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
In life things doesn't go as how we want it, but we have to live with it and be thankful for what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when you feel as though things aren't going well in your life, you have reasons to be grateful. Today, take time… — Kaceem Aveiro Copy Share Image
Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Seek wisdom. Wisdom waits to be gathered. She cannot be bartered or sold. She is a fight for the diligent. And only… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“haven’t you figured out yet that happy is a momentary emotion? If you spend your life trying to be happy, you’ll always… — Carol Lynne Copy Share Image
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
“In all provinces of life, it is unhappily the case, that whatever is to be accomplished by a number of co-operating men… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing. — Irene Hunt Copy Share Image
Happiness is going on without the things you want long enough to appreciate the things you have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given — William Ames Copy Share Image
If you don't have peace and joy right now where you are in your life, please understand that getting more things will… — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Life is harder when you complicate the simple things. Enjoy what you have and live your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
“You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers” — Binye Vincent Copy Share Image
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the… — Haruki Murakami 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
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
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
