Contented Quotes

270 Contented quotes by 213 unique authors

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes… — Norman Vincent Peale
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that… — Joseph Sobran
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all… — Lewis Thomas
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things,… — Frances Wright
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being… — Aldous Huxley
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire… — George Eliot
Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away… — John Denver
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It… — Amy Lowell
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to… — William Styron
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and… — Benjamin Franklin
I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the… — Wendell Berry
You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly… — Louisa May Alcott
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and… — Miguel de Cervantes
I'll think of something," he temporized, and Horace nodded wisely, satisfied that Halt would indeed think of something. In Horace's world, that was what Rangers… — John Flanagan
They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at… — Paulo Coelho
Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them. — Donita K. Paul
We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does… — C.S. Lewis
...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently… — Edwin A. Abbott
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I… — Bret Easton Ellis
The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first… — Louisa May Alcott
We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if… — Chief Joseph
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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