Quotes by Contentment Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. B.K.S. Iyengar success-or-failurecontentmentshould Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content. Bob Iger digitalcontentmentneeds Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has. Bob Lewis progresscontentmentambition I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite. Brian Swimme delightcontentmentpassion Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves. Bryant H. McGill progresscontentmenthealing There are enough resources in the world for everyone. Bryant H. McGill contentmentenoughworld I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that we are connected and we are all still humans, and we are all still looking for the same sort of contentment in our life in one way or another. Some people are searching a little harder than others, granted. But we're not so different. Buck Brannaman contentmentdifferentpeople All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him. Buck Brannaman horsecontentmentgiving Contentment is the result of a limited imagination. Carolyn Wells contentmentresultsimagination Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about. Carrie Brownstein environmentalcontentmentracism Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid. Celia Thaxter tiredcontentmentlying 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 contentmentmindintegrity Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment. Chanakya contentmentwisdomhands They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch. Charles Bukowski contentmentjailhands Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. Charles Caleb Colton incomeshoescontentment Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. Charles Dickens cheerfulcontentmentlife It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have. Charles Dickens contentmentqualitymay Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything. Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz contentmentwantmen Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers. Charles Frazier contentmenttalkingbelieve My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. Charles Lamb contentmentwishlittles«1234567891011»
