Contentment Quotes
695 quotes by 472 authors
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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
— David A. Bednar
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A prominent judge was asked what we, as citizens of the countries of the world, could do to reduce crime and disobedience to law and…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within…
— Heber J. Grant
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Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness…
— Noah Levine
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Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World; and…
— John Woolman
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If you can sit quietly after difficult news, if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm, if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic…
— Jack Kornfield
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It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to…
— Frances Perkins
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Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.
— Arthur W. Pink
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
— John Ortberg
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Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
— Denis Waitley
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Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.
— Harbhajan Singh
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Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are,…
— David Leonhardt
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No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
— T.E. Lawrence
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In parting, I would like to give you one small piece of advice to keep in your heart. You may have heard me say this…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the…
— Deepak Chopra
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The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
— William Ames
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