Contentment Quotes

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid w...

Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be...

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful vi...

What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had ...

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such ...

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can ...

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessing...

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased...

I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the th...

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, becaus...

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him ...

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy the...

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal a...

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at,...

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only ...

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full c...

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Be...

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacki...

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with one...

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest ...

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady...

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being...

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative...

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

...those who deny or oppose these so pleasant delights (of virtue), do so only from jealousy, you ma...

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

We need much less than we think we need.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment...

A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in t...

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have,...

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you hav...

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what ha...

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an o...

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, an...

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

But now, in the final hours, even hope had vanished. Yet he could smile. At a point without hope he ...

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contente...

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's...

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd...

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most...

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

There was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing,And in truth it was lamentable.But there was ...

And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that t...

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes a...

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects...

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes...

...you play the instrument you have.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.

I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all ...

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

Most beautiful of all was the tarnished gold of the elms, with a little brown in it, a little bronze...

In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on h...

"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man."

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place...

Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experie...

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis o...

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over ...

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the ...

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his...

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!

You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love, Edith.''No, I am not,' she said, slowly. 'I...

The angel of God, having secretly Betrothed us one winter day,Watches over our carefree livesWith fi...

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home...