Quotes by Contentment To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. George Edward Woodberry contentment half happiness To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. George MacDonald contentment power want Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy. Gautama Buddha inspirational-buddhist contentment joy 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. Georges Rodenbach contentment grace art When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso contentment mind happy When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom. Gautama Buddha serenity contentment desire A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton contentment artist art Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. Guy Finley contentment wish heart Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service. Harbhajan Singh contentment I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. Harold Brodkey entering contentment perfect When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment. Hannah More emulation vanity contentment We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening. Gilbert K. Chesterton castles contentment joy If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet. Heber J. Grant contentment heart mean True humility is contentment. Henri Frederic Amiel contentment humility humble Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid). Friedrich Nietzsche renaissance contentment war Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back. Friedrich Nietzsche rags women contentment For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. Hermann Hesse optimism contentment class What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life Hermann Hesse steppenwolf contentment The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment. Henry Miller contentment-and-peace difficult contentment Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. Hippocrates medical physicians contentment «23456789101112»
