As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The only way to determine what makes for success is to establish what will make you content with your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Expectations always lead to disappointment. Never expect anything from anybody. Be self content. Anticipate everything but expect nothing. — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The smile on my face it's not mean I have a perfect life or I don't have any problem but It's mean… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
“Her impulse to want less was born of her own early disappointments, sure, but life would inevitably disappoint everyone, she thought. Better… — Angela Flournoy Copy Share Image
Contentment will come when you drop the search and you live each moment as it comes, Marry yourself to the divine principles… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each… — Walt Whitman 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
“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
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
“Whenever you name something in creation as the thing that will satisfy you, you are asking that thing to be your personal… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
I have not learnt music at all. So actually I want to learn something - learn how to play a piano, maybe,… — KK Copy Share Image
“the path to contentment was to abide by one's own nature and follow it's path.” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
He who makes others happy at the cost of his own happiness remains sad but contented. — Oluwole Tobi Copy Share Image
Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
“No matter what you’re facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Money cant buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. I may not have everything I want, but I know I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy. — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
