Contentment Quotes - page 2

The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate. (Christopher Columbus)
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering. View quote
Denis de Rougemont
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment. View quote
Jess Walter
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion. View quote
Georges Rodenbach
Don't confuse contentment with happiness... View quote
Chris Wooding
I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people. View quote
Lian Hearn
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. View quote
Doug Larson
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. View quote
Harold Coffin
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation. View quote
Kay Arthur
... surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver. (Dodie Smith)
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. View quote
Florence Welch
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. View quote
Grenville Kleiser
I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment. View quote
Hume Cronyn
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. View quote
James E. Faust
Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord. View quote
Paul Henderson
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. View quote
Sarah Ban Breathnach
True contentment comes with empathy. View quote
Tim Finn
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. View quote
William Ames
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. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is such a fleeting point of view-there's no such thing as continual happiness. There are only moments of happiness-from contentment to ecstasy. And if by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom ever repeated. If by happiness you mean an ordinary contentment, then yes-I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied-contented. Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reason I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irrita­tion of my bodyguards. (Indira Gandhi)
With... small-town life... there are hundreds of thousands... who are not content. The more intelligent young people... flee to the cities... and... stay there, seldom returning even for holidays. The reason, Carol insisted... is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment... the contentment of the quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is the slavery self-sought and self-defended. It is dullness made God. A savorless people, gulping tasteless food and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking-chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
True humility is contentment. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. View quote
Thomas Fuller