Contentment Quote by Kōbō Abe

“The movies that last, the ones we return to, don’t always have lofty themes or Byzantine complexities. Sometimes they last because they are arrows…

— Roger Ebert

“Contentment has learned how to find out what she needs to know. Last year she went on a major housecleaning spree. First she stood…

— J. Ruth Gendler

Every human always wants more. We're never satisfied. True happiness doesn't come until we're fully satisfied with what we have.

— Anonymous

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

Most of us are not content with our lot because we want a lot more

— Marianette Carbito

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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