Contentment Quotes

695 Contentment quotes by 458 unique authors

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough. — Aleksandar Hemon
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does… — Epictetus
Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be… — Thomas S. Monson
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. — Charles M. Schulz
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances. — Joni Eareckson Tada
A lonely impulse of delight — William Butler Yeats
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation… — Christopher Ryan
Don't confuse contentment with happiness... — Chris Wooding
I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared… — Donald Miller
We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — C.S. Lewis
Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let… — Chuck Palahniuk
They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail,… — Charles Bukowski
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness… — Dalai Lama
There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was… — Hermann Hesse
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased… — Frederick Douglass
It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care. — Thomas Watson

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