Contentment Quotes

Loneliness is the poverty of self, solitude is richness of self.

~ May Sarton

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.

~ Paul Enenche

If you cannot be happy with the little you have, you can be confused with the lot you want to have

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don’t need much to give. Give what you have.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

~ John Geddes

One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we find to do day by day.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

~ H.w. Brands

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.

~ Maureen Corrigan

Practice appreciation for who you are and what you have… and allow your life to unfold in the most amazing way.

~ Millen Livis

Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

~ Gary Hopkins

I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.

~ Walt Whitman

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not True, things don't stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes forever scarred. And with each of these moments you change again, your true self spinning, shifting positions - but always at last it returns to you, like a dancer on the floor. Because throughout it all you are still always, *you*: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

~ Leila Sales

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

~ Lao Tzu

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment.

~ Mehek Bassi

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

~ L. Frank Baum

The world is always greater than your desires, plenty is never enough.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today.

~ Marty Rubin

Give yourself the love and attention you desire, it's the starting point of contentment.

~ Rob Liano

Happiness is found within Oneself. It can't be accessed through People or Things.

~ Joan Ambu

The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself, self-love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Healing was a terrifying and painful experience and my life was as full of struggle and heartache as it had always been. Several years after I started therapy, I began to feel happy. I was stunned. I hadn't realized that the point of all this work on myself was to feel good. I thought it was just one more struggle in a long line of struggles. It took a while before I got used to the idea that my life had changed, that I felt happy, that I was actually content. Learning to tolerate feeling good is one of the nicest parts of healing.

~ Ellen Bass

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

~ Immanuel Kant

It is bad enough when rich Christians show little concern for the poor, but when they moan about their lot, they show contempt not only for the poor but also for the generosity of God.

~ Tim Chester

Instead of living our lives fighting discontentment, striving to gain contentment from things that were never meant to bring contentment… What if we gave it all up for a grand adventure, for a worthy cause, for the Father? Why do we keep searching to find a hole to shove our hearts into when they were meant to be poured out and fill the entire world?

~ Katie Kiesler

There's Nothing To Hide When Your Soul Is Not Guilty....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

~ David Ignatow

[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.

~ James Robertson

Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died...

~ Agatha Christie

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Don’t waste you energy to compare your life with others.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Even if it's not appreciated, do your best. Integrity will take you further than acknowledgement.

~ Andrena Sawyer