Contentment Quote by James Beattie Download Open image “From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.” — James Beattie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Every Happiness Health Joy Labour Source Spring
Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come. — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
“The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think” — James Beattie Copy Share Image
In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame. — James Beattie Copy Share Image
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the… — James Beattie Copy Share Image
Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? — James Beattie Copy Share Image
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is… — James Beattie Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I may not have everything I want in life but I have all I will ever need to make my life complete, my family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can find as much happiness at the bottom of the ladder of success as you can at the top, then you understand… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were… — Jennie Rooney Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image