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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
I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way. -- Walter Savage Landor
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
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul. -- George A. Smith
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
I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders. -- Daniel Tammet
Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance. -- Oral Roberts
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. -- Laurence Sterne
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
I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world. -- Joe DiMaggio
People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.' -- Linda Thompson
Happiness is a great contentment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't confuse contentment with happiness... -- Chris Wooding
Man's happiness really lies in contentment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment. -- Tim Fargo
Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness. -- Kishore Bansal
Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness. -- Aesop
Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any. -- Chloe Thurlow
A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness -- Dalai Lama
There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy. -- Indira Gandhi
When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness. -- Beverly LaHaye
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong. -- Bill Bailey
Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service. -- Harbhajan Singh
The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind. -- Frederick Lenz
The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind. -- Frederick Lenz
Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. -- Doug Larson
Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman. -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location. -- Ogwo David Emenike
There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment. -- Ray Charles
Happiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn't make you happy, contentment does. -- Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness. -- Bill Gothard
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. -- Leon Kass
It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment. -- Sakyong Mipham
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. -- Swami Sivananda
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. -- Swami Sivananda
If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented. -- Indira Gandhi
Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment. -- Chanakya
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? -- Ellen Glasgow
Having happy kids is far more important than anything they'll ever accomplish. Without happiness success and contentment is always hard to reach. -- Ron Baratono
Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness? -- Alan Moore
We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment. -- Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig
I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances. -- Andrew Weil
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
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. -- Og Mandino
We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude. -- Thomas S. Monson
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
While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
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
All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment. -- Immanuel Kant
I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment. -- Martin Sheen
I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people. -- Robert Baden-Powell
self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness. -- Sarah Josepha Hale

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