Contented Quotes

270 Contented quotes by 213 unique authors

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a… — Hart Crane
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. — Frank Herbert
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content. — Confucius
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent… — Oscar Wilde
The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he… — Orison Swett Marden
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small… — Mary Wortley Montagu
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own… — Socrates
If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. — Socrates
The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning any practice depends… — Sylvia Boorstein
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -… — Henry David Thoreau
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as… — Frederick Douglass
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever… — Alexander Graham Bell
People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refreshed. Conversely, people who are anxious, stressed, or depressed… — Andrew Weil
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order… — Charles Caleb Colton
The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in… — Charles Spurgeon
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent. — Adoniram Judson
We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for. — William Carey
I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World… — Kirby Puckett
I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it… — Karen Carpenter
To be contented—that’s for the cows. — Diana Vreeland

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