Contentment Quotes

we're all golden sunflowers inside.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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.

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.

A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. So if we have enough of what we need, let us be content with that.

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

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

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

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

True contentment comes with empathy.

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want.....If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.

The key to contentment is to consider. Consider who you are and be satisfied with that. Consider what you have and be satisfied with that. Consider what God's doing and be satisfied with that. You will be amazed at how much more comfortable you'll feel with yourself. Finally, consider this: If contentment cannot be found within yourself, you'll never find it.

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Ask often, be content of little, reward always.

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

Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.

The death of contentment is comparison.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

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.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Contentment is natural wealth.