Quotes by Contentment Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar contentmentproblemtrying Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar contentmentwalkscomplaining 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 contentmentdesiremean I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar contentmentwantgiving We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work. Stefan Zweig contentmentpoliticalforever "And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question". Stephen R. Donaldson contentmentanswerslaughing What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution. Stephen Schwartz serenitycontentmentgiving My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience. Steve "Lips" Kudlow contentmenthatejobs The death of contentment is comparison. Steven Furtick comparisoncontentment We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best. Susan L. Taylor addictioncontentmentorder Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required. Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha agencycontentmentmind Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. T. E. Lawrence miserycontentmentliterature The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment. T. D. Jakes plagiarismpopularitycontentment Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence. Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart contentmentsufferinghands The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world. Teresa of Avila contentmentloversworld Who God possesseth Teresa of Avila contentmentgod If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment. Thich Thien-An contentmentacceptingknows Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. Thomas Chandler Haliburton refinedindolencecontentment 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. Thomas Conklin contentmentwinefeelings Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. Thomas Fuller contentmentfuelfire«89101112131415161718»
