Contentment Quotes

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

Health, Best, Greatest

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

Health, Greatest, Confidence

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama

Yourself, Everything, Desire

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, Daily, Thinking

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.
Grenville Kleiser

Humor, Good, Best

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.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Peace, Waiting, Mind

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

Happiness, Mind, Virtue

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Power, True, Getting

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

Fire, Away, Taking

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
Sivananda

Happiness, Best, Alone

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

True, Enough, Large

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson

Happiness, While, Looking

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Frances Burney

Mind, Free, Ambition

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Abu Bakr

Faith, God, Fear

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Laurence Sterne

Happiness, Within, Soon

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Anthony Trollope

Life, Evening, Parent

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Herman Hesse

Happiness, Feeling, Nothing

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
George A. Smith

Happiness, Health, Men

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Children, Control, Joy

True humility is contentment.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Life, Perfect, Head

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin

Often, Days, Ten

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J. G. Ballard

Humor, Good, Writing

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
Merle Shain

Often, Days, Ten

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
William Ames

Love, Joy, Found

True contentment comes with empathy.
Tim Finn

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.
Alison Krauss

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.
Florence Welch

Creativity, Else, Creative

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Eugene O'Neill

Sad, Either, Warm

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
Abbas Kiarostami

Time, Nothing, Sometimes

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