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Definition of Contented
Contented

Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing.

Related Definitions:
Content, Easy, In, Mind, Quiet, Satisfied, Willing


Contented Quotations

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

He who is contented is rich.
Lao Tzu

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
Chief Joseph

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
John Kenneth Galbraith

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks

Contented Translations

contented in Afrikaans is tevrede
contented in Danish is tilfreds
contented in Dutch is tevreden, voldaan, vergenoegd
contented in French is satisfait, content
contented in German is zufrieden, befriedigte
contented in Italian is soddisfatto
contented in Latin is contentus
contented in Spanish is contento


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