Contentment Quotes

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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from… — Charles R. Swindoll
Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without… — Paul of the Cross
I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal… — Martin Sheen
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties… — Charles William Eliot
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those… — Martin Seligman
Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life. — David Gerrold
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to… — Martin Luther
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. — Charles Caleb Colton
Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies. — Agnes Repplier
Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man. — Walter Russell
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose… — Jonathan Haidt
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us. — Vivien Greene
Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty.… — Rajneesh
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems! — Zig Ziglar
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole… — Zhuangzi
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the… — Benjamin Franklin
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. — Og Mandino
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has… — Robert Southey
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak… — Bertolt Brecht

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