Contentment Quotes

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People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of… — Robert Coover
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he… — Sinclair Lewis
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One… — George Gissing
Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you… — Robert Baden-Powell
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does. — Abbas Kiarostami
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? — Alain de Botton
Contentment is the only real wealth — Alfred Nobel
I don't look for bliss, just contentment. — Alison Krauss
There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was… — Saint Augustine
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life. — Bernie Siegel
"I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing. — Billy Graham
There are enough resources in the world for everyone. — Bryant H. McGill
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must… — Dawn Powell
Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming… — Dennis E Adonis
The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago. — Elizabeth Strout
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of… — Guy Finley
What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life — Hermann Hesse
I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment. — Hume Cronyn
I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing. — Irene Hunt

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