Contentment Quotes And Sayings

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“Ultimate prosperity is one’s value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.” 
– Criss Jami

“Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.” 
– Criss Jami

“I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.” 
– Criss Jami

“Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.”
– Criss Jami

“I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.” 
– Criss Jami

“Imagination doesn’t always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.”
– Criss Jami

“When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’”
– Dalai Lama 

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” 
– Dale Carneige

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” 
– Dale Carneige

“Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.”
– Dawn Powell

“Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.” 
– Dennis E. Adonis

“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”
– Doug Larson 

“Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re real quite lucky.” 
– Dr. Seuss

“One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.” 
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.” 
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.” 
– Elizabeth Strout

“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!” 
– Ellis Peters

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” 
– Epictetus

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
– Epicurus

“One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.”
– Eugene O’Neill 

“When you’re heartbroken, you’re at your most creative – you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don’t worry – I’m very capable of making myself discontented.”
– Florence Welch 

“A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.”
– Frances Burney 

“I don’t want to own anything that won’t fit into my coffin.”
– Fred A. Allen

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
– Frederick Keonig

“Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.”
– George A. Smith 

“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 

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”
– Grenville Kleiser 

“Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness – all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had – outside of us.”
– Guy Finley 

“I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.”
– Harold Brodkey 

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