Contentment Quote by Carolyn Wells Download Open image “Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.” — Carolyn Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Creativity Happiness Imagination Results
Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
“Been Contented goes beyond our material wants; contentment sets us free from the illusion of having more or “Better things”, or expecting “better times"… — Quetzal Copy Share Image
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away. — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your… — Lyn Yutang 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
Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Developing a sense of contentment means entering into rituals of reflection and celebration of the various stages of our lives. If life is only one big, long story and we never pause to celebrate the various chapters, then our awareness of the good we have done will be vague, and our discontentment will grow. Contentment is the sort of thing… — Darrin Patrick Copy Share
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given — William Ames Copy Share Image
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance whose presence is least desired, but most rewarding when embraced."- Carolyn Wells, Start… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.” — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I may not have everything I want in life but I have all I will ever need to make my life complete, my family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more — Marianette Carbito 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 through service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were… — Jennie Rooney Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image