Contentment Quotes - Page 2

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want.....If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.

The key to contentment is to consider. Consider who you are and be satisfied with that. Consider what you have and be satisfied with that. Consider what God's doing and be satisfied with that. You will be amazed at how much more comfortable you'll feel with yourself. Finally, consider this: If contentment cannot be found within yourself, you'll never find it.

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 we watch.

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 satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

Ask often, be content of little, reward always.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

The death of contentment is comparison.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Contentment is natural wealth.

If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

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

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.