Contentment Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contentment Fountain Happiness Mind Psychology Spring
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“fountains of inconvenient feeling—and toward the frantic enticements of” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given — William Ames Copy Share Image
Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson observed: “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“allowing the river of light-the deepest currents of consciousness-to rise to the surface and, without anxiety, animate our lives. We are thus blessed to… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness. — Bill Gothard Copy Share Image
“It is not so much as to say that something has occured; but to describe the very essence of the occurance. One must take… — Jason W. Blair Copy Share Image
Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
