“Is it wise to blow the whistle on a person's selfishness when selfishness itself is an important attribute for contentment?” — ldR Copy Share Image
Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment. — Julianne MacLean Copy Share Image
The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values¦ The best things in life feel like we… — Harold J Duarte-Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
The pleasures that we seek are not happiness at its peak, for it is contentment that gives true fulfillment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Marriage is the best place to express love and, enjoy well-being and contentment.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars;… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
“The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure… — Moffat Machingura Copy Share Image
“I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [...]… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Happy are those who live under a discipline which they accept without question, who freely obey the orders of leaders, spiritual or… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Appreciate what you have right now because you don't always get a second chance. — Tinku Razoria Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come. — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
“When we turn life’s little pleasures into remedies for life’s troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push… — Lydia Brownback Copy Share Image
Contentment is a recipe for happiness, while vision is a recipe for better life. — Moyo Adekoya Copy Share Image
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Contentment is not the fulfillment of everything you want, it's the realization of everything you already have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't belong to those who have everything, but to those who can appreciate what they have. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy. — James Beattie Copy Share Image
Don't just exist... live, being happy in life is simple, Focus on you, making yourself happy, love what you do and do… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image