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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. -- Thomas Fuller
Contentment is natural wealth. -- Socrates
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. -- Abu Bakr
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. -- John Balguy
True humility is contentment. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. -- Lao Tzu
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. -- Charles Caleb Colton
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.' -- Dalai Lama
Contentment is the only real wealth. -- Alfred Nobel
We need much less than we think we need. -- Maya Angelou
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. -- Joseph Addison
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At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. -- Lao Tzu
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing. -- Criss Jami
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition. -- Jeremiah Burroughs
When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented. -- Florence Welch
Contentment is indispensable joy. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Contentment is joy of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Contentment is the greatest joy. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Contentment: The smother of invention. -- Ethel Mumford
Contentment is knowing you're right -- Bill Bailey
Contentment is an undervalued grace. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Contentment achieve inwardly change outer realities -- Kishore Bansal
Contentment is the only real wealth -- Albert Nobel
Contentment is the only real wealth -- Albert Nobel
Contentment is a pearl of great price -- John Balguy
Contentment is better than divinations or visions. -- Walter Savage Landor
Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness. -- Kishore Bansal
Contentment is both the fruit and the tree. -- Dave Ramsey
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. -- Socrates
Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination. -- Carolyn Wells
Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness. -- Aesop
Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it. -- John Ford
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people. -- Denis Waitley
Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any. -- Chloe Thurlow
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune. -- Marie Leszczynska
Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals -- Will Durant
Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances. -- Linda Dillow
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. -- T. E. Lawrence
Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. -- Arthur W. Pink
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong. -- Bill Bailey
Contentment and gratitude are signs that you are worthy of further receivership. -- Bryant McGill
Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs. -- Linda Dillow
O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth. -- Saadi
Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants. -- Epictetus
Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life. -- David Gerrold
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. -- Gautama Buddha
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. -- Benjamin Franklin
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay. -- Margaret Mead
Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord. -- Paul Henderson
Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah. -- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. -- Epictetus
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Contentment makes a person down to earth thou its ability is up in the air. -- Kishore Bansal
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. -- Lao Tzu
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness. -- Bill Gothard
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. -- Merle Shain
Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make. -- Joyce Meyer
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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. -- William Ames
Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact. -- T. D. Jakes
Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better. -- Dave Ramsey
Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way. -- Charles L. Allen
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. -- Anonymous
Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come. -- Priscilla Shirer
Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God. -- W. Phillip Keller
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. -- Swami Sivananda
Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has. -- Bob Lewis
Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian. -- Jeremiah Burroughs
Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy -- Lao Tzu
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it. -- John Eldredge
Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment. -- Geoffrey Wood
Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life. -- Ellen J. Barrier
Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers. -- Charles Frazier
You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim. -- Jennifer Crusie
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is -- Josh Billings
There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him. -- J. I. Packer
Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power. -- Jerry Bridges
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. -- Jeremiah Burroughs
Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Move inwards! Contentment is a quality of your center; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being; it is not found in the ego. -- Rajneesh
Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release, and for the creative it can take the form of art. -- Eric Gibbons
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything. -- Sylvia Day
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them. -- Joseph Addison
Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise. -- Kaspar Hauser
It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time. -- Frances Perkins
People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate. -- Jaggi Vasudev
A large battalion of my thoughts was marching determinedly on its way to Annoyance but it was distracted and took a wrong turn at Adam and found, to its surprise, that it had ended up in the entirely different destination of Dreamy Contentment." -- Marian Keyes
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. -- Joseph Joubert
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed. -- Dalai Lama
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. -- Og Mandino
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. -- Gautama Buddha
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. -- Bernard Williams
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. -- Merle Shain
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. -- Dalai Lama
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. -- Frances Burney
I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples. -- James E. Faust
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo. -- John P. Kotter
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. -- Chanakya
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. -- Charles Spurgeon
The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life. -- Gary Zukav
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. -- Herman Hesse
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. -- James E. Faust
Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. -- Guy Finley

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