Definition of Contentment
Contentment
The state of being contented or satisfied; content.
The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.
Gratification; pleasure; satisfaction.
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Contentment Quotations
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
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
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu
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
True humility is contentment.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller
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
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
William Ames
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Contentment Translations
contentment in Dutch is tevredenheid
contentment in German is Zufriedenheit
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