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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
contentment problem trying
Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk,  by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk,

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
contentment walks complaining

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 desire mean
I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness... by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
contentment want giving

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
contentment political forever

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

Stephen R. Donaldson
contentment answers laughing

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
serenity contentment giving

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
contentment hate jobs
The death of contentment is comparison. by Steven Furtick

The death of contentment is comparison.

Steven Furtick
comparison contentment

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
addiction contentment order

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
agency contentment mind

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

T. E. Lawrence
misery contentment literature
The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to tru... by T. D. Jakes

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

T. D. Jakes
plagiarism popularity contentment

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
contentment suffering hands
The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty... by Teresa of Avila

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

Teresa of Avila
contentment lovers world
Who God possesseth by Teresa of Avila

Who God possesseth

Teresa of Avila
contentment god

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
contentment accepting knows
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
refined indolence contentment

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
contentment wine feelings
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away s... by Thomas Fuller

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Thomas Fuller
contentment fuel fire
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