Contentment Quotes

In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on her lap. We were silent. Everything was silent. Only the pulse was audible. Like a crystal I was dissolving in her, in I-330. I felt most distinctly how the polished facets which limited me in space were slowly thawing, melting away. I was dissolving in her lap, in her, and I became at once smaller and larger, and larger, unembraceable. For she was not she but the whole universe. For a second I and that armchair near the bed, transfixed with joy, we were one.

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;—perfect, in being much too short.

~ Jane Austen

In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one other. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many things depend upon this thing? God may have some work to do twenty years hence that depends on this passage of providence that falls out this day or this week.

~ Jeremiah Burroughs

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

~ Epictetus

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and comfortable people and talk to them with the art of the evil one, and they can soon be made discontented with their government, their rulers, with everything around them, and even with themselves.

~ Thomas Hutchinson

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

~ Alain De Botton

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

No, of course not. I just feel content,” she said carefully.“That’s an old person’s word,” said Ethan.

~ Meg Wolitzer

This book is not the memoir of a contented man. It's not the poignant reflections of a white-haired guru who has finally figured out the secret to contentment. It's more like sweaty, bloody, hastily scribbled notes from a battlefield. I'm still struggling to escape the sinister fingers on this conspiracy. I'm still waging war against the discontentment that rages in my life. I can see contentment in the distance, like a hazy oasis, but I have to pick my way through a minefield to get there. I'm not the contented man God wants me to be, but I'm fighting to get there. I'm writing this book the hope that you'll join me in the fight.

~ Stephen Altrogge

So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.

~ Jeremiah Burroughs

Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

When you are on your purpose- when you do what you love to do, you have peace unexplainable. You are happy and contented. You are in the zone 24/7.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste your time to explain.

~ Assegid Habtewold

True affluence is not needing anything.

~ Gary Snyder

Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small joys-- of love and occasional peace in a life that was full of pain.

~ Peter Heller

She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

~ Rachel Hauck

...'This is what I have seen to be good and proper: that one should eat and drink and find enjoyment for all the hard work at which he toils under the sun during the few days of life that the true God has given him, for that is his reward.'– Ecclesiastes 5:18

~ Jehovah

Sometimes just breathing is enough.

~ Marty Rubin

Never be content with your work, even if you are good at what you do, look at tightrope walkers – they don't stay in one place for a long time, they keep moving because no matter how confident they are about the efforts and skill set, a strong wind factor can hinder all the efforts. Improve & improvise because this time it was the wind, next time it could be rain, hailstones or sand storms.

~ Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

She pats my knee. I’m going to tell you something my grandmother told me when I was fifteen years old. `Eliza, you won’t ever be content with someone if you can’t learn how to be content by yourself first.

~ Erynn Mangum

Godliness with contentment is rare.

~ Craig Groeschel

We speak of searching for happiness, of finding contentment, as if these were locations on an atlas, actual places that we could visit if only we had the proper map and the right navigational skills.

~ Melody Warnick

Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way.

~ Joanna Gaines

Thus it looks in the last analysis as if the soul which serves God in spirit and in truth enjoys a very unusual kind of peace: not the satisfying inward rest which we would have expected, nor the outward rest of having everything in order and nothing left out, but a rest which consists in contentment at having sacrificed both to the will of God.

~ Dom Hubert Van Zeller

Some days 'staying put' might feel the same as Going Nowhere.Make a cup of tea, and wait for that feeling to pass.

~ Vivian Swift

No one’s life ever goes as they planned. That truth alone should bring a sense of relief to everyone.

~ Andrena Sawyer

It doesn't matter whether you do small or big Job, what matters is job Contentment.

~ Mohith Agadi

Everything that is truly of value–love, family, peace, health, and contentment—can never be bought.

~ Tiffany L. Jackson

Life is contentment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All I ever think about day and night is-how can I make a difference in the lives of others, how can I provide an ounce of contentment and happiness?

~ Charmaine J. Forde

Happiness lies in being content with what you have right now, than mongering over what you don't have. Respect Life, Celebrate Now!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.

~ Anthony Marra

...the morning with the whole day waiting,full of promise,the nightof quiet, of no expectations, of rest.And the certainty of home, the one I live in,and the onethat lives in me.

~ Karen Hesse

The angel of God, having secretly Betrothed us one winter day,Watches over our carefree livesWith fixed, darkening eyesBecause of this we love the sky,Keen air, the fresh windAnd the blackening branchesBehind the iron fence.Because of this we love the sternDark city with its many waterways.And we love our partings,And our brief meetings.

~ Anna Akhmatova

just find your way, like a river settling into its bed, and the sigh of the wind over a lake, light but restful... content with the joy in the arc of an arm throwing a ball for a dog to fetch

~ Jay Woodman

.... just find your way, like a river settling into its bed, and the sigh of the wind over a lake, light but restful... content with the joy in the arc of an arm throwing a ball for a dog to fetch, the ease of the grassy slope stretching away, birds in the trees singing sweet high notes, flowers growing close in the ditch.

~ Jay Woodman

I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance.

~ Jessa Crispin

A man may be absolutely poor and dispossessed of everything, and yet be wordly. Another man may be very wealthy and yet severed. Severance means that one's heart must not be attached to the things of this world. It does not mean that a man must dispossess himself of them, or that he must not work and earn or practice his profession, whatever it may be, in the world. It does not mean that he must not put on what he has. If he has a silk garb, let him wear that; and if he has not, but has a suit of cotton goods, let him wear that clean. He must feel the same in both.

~ Abdu'l-Bahá

Life is contentment not a competition.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon