The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing,… — Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart Copy Share Image
“I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled… — Robin Lee Hatcher Copy Share Image
Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every… — David Niven Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Would I learn how to be contented and cheerful under all the cares and anxieties of life ? What school shall I… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky;… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet. This… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
“So in our own poor hides and from our miserable comrades we learn the nature of satiety. Satiety depends not at all… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a… — Friedrich Frobel Copy Share Image
But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
“What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend.… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In our life, we don't need to explain how much we love a person. It depends on them how they appreciate the… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
“To find true and lasting contentment, we must seek God. We must see Him blessing us. We must realize that His will… — Ashley Wells Copy Share Image
The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“I am happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up I felt good because the sun was shining. I… — Arnold Lobel Copy Share Image
Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you.… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam,… — Kaspar Hauser Copy Share Image
No one can fill the void of happiness for you, only you withhold that power. And once you unleash the power of… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. From the moment of birth, every human being wants happiness and… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen.… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
