Contentment Quotes And Sayings

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“One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.”
– Harold Coffin 

“The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel like we feel when we waste our time!”
– Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt 

“There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.” 
– Haruki Murakami

“True humility is contentment.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel 

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.” 
– Henry Fielding

“The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.” 
– Henry Miller

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.”
– Herman Hesse 

“What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life”
– Herman Hesse 

“he who is greedy is always in want“ 
– Horace

“I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.”
– Hume Cronyn 

“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.” 
– Iain Pears

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.” 
– Immanuel kant

“I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.” 
– Irene Hunt

“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”
– J. G. Ballard 

“From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opens the source of every joy.”
– James Beattie 

“Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.”
– James K. Polk 

“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

“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism…Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimism.
– Jennifer Crusie

“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God‘s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.” 
– Jeremiah Burroughs

“It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.” 
– Johann David Wyss

“Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.”
– John Balguy

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

“Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out toward its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.” 
– John Eldredge

“Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.”
– John P. Kotter 

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” 
– John Stuart Mill

“..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.” 
– José Saramago

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

“Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn’t anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn’t be any more of a success than an angleworm is”
– Josh Billings

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

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