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  • Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

  • There's only what you choose, and how you can have it. If you choose peace and joy and love, you won't get much of it through what you're doing. If you choose happiness and contentment, you'll find little of that on the path of doingness. If you choose reunion with God, supreme knowing, deep understanding, endless compassion, total awareness, absolute fulfillment, you won't achieve much of that out of what you're doing.

    "The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 2005.
  • As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

  • Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami
  • There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'

    Angel   Journey   Men  
    Orison Swett Marden (1917). “How to Get what You Want”
  • Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

    "The Lord's Prayer" with Leslie Basham, www.reviveourhearts.com. August 29, 2016.
  • Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God's will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.

  • Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don't nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becomes filled with happiness. Don't have any desire for peace, and see how the turmoil within you vanishes. Don't beg for contentment and see how contentment showers down on you. Please try this - only then will you understand.

  • The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.

    Christian   Mean   Men  
  • The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

  • Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

    Linda Dillow (2014). “My Journey to Contentment: A Companion Journal for Calm My Anxious Heart”, p.22, Tyndale House
  • We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

    Success   Rose   Victory  
  • The noblest mind the best contentment has

    Edmund Spenser, Roy Maynard (1999). “Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene”, p.32, Canon Press & Book Service
  • There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

    Differences   Goal   Mind  
  • At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park This is peace and contentment. It's new. The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all my jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I'm glad I exist.

    Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.33, Faber & Faber
  • Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.

  • And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.

  • 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.

    Home   Men   Yankees  
  • Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

    Lying   Men   Contentment  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”
  • Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

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

    The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.
  • Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.

  • When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

  • The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92
  • Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

  • It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

  • He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

    Jess Walter (2012). “Beautiful Ruins: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins
  • Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

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

    Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.89
  • If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich

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