Contentment Quotes

695 Contentment quotes by 458 unique authors

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled. — Rajneesh
The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the Divine, from prayer,… — Rajneesh
When a man is able to be alone he is also able to love. And his love has a totally different quality, a different beauty,… — Rajneesh
Love can have the quality of the devil - that`s how it is there in the world, ninety-nine percent. Love can have the quality of… — Rajneesh
Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness, that we are… — Rajneesh
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own… — Dalai Lama
We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight… — Tenzin Palmo
The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human… — Meher Baba
Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are… — Jeremiah Burroughs
A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find… — Unknown Author
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from… — Al-Ghazali
By Allah, whenever I endure any adversity I gain four blessings of Allah in exchange. The first of them is, when the adversity is not… — Unknown Author
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from… — Immanuel Kant
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always… — Michael Dorris
Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker?… — Dale Carnegie
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass
Life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet. This means that those… — Harold Klemp
I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running… — Clare B. Dunkle
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong. — Bill Bailey
Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day… — David Niven
A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters,… — Christine Schutt
Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is… — Georges Rodenbach
A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding. No person, place,… — Genevieve Behrend

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