Contentment Quotes

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Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. — Tom Robbins
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it… — Joshua Ferris
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. — Charles Dickens
It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb… — Michael Chabon
we're all golden sunflowers inside. — Allen Ginsberg
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but… — John Lubbock
I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people. — Lian Hearn
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. — Jim Rohn
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware… — Lionel Shriver
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come… — Wallace Stevens
...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver. — Dodie Smith
But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest. — Billy Collins
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety. — Emily Dickinson
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that… — Og Mandino
You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim. — Jennifer Crusie
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every… — Jeremiah Burroughs
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you… — Charles Spurgeon
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. — Ann Brashares
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception… — Brother Lawrence

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