Contentment Quotes And Sayings

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“You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”
– Keith Sweat

“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

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” 
– Lao Tzu

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” 
– Lao Tzu

“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.”
– Lao Tzu

“Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one’s youth.” 
– Larry McMurtry

“Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man’s stature as to his happiness.”
– Laurence Sterne 

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.” 
– Leo Tolstoy

“Perhaps it’s because I appreciate all I have so much that I don’t worry about what I haven’t got.” 
– Leo Tolstoy

“You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!” 
– Lev Grossman

“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.”
– Mahatma Gandhi 

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” 
– Martha washington

“If one bite fills you, you don’t need two.” 
– Marty Rubin

“The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.”
– Mary Antin 

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” 
– May Sarton

“We need much less than we think we need.” 
– Maya Angelou

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

“We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That’s all.” 
– Mike Patton

“Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.” 
– Neil A. Maxwell

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough” 
– Oprah Winfrey

“The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.” 
– P G Wodehouse

“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.” 
– Pablo Picasso

“Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.”
– Paul Henderson 

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” 
– Pearl S Buck

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” 
– Plato

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself” 
– Plato

“Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.” 
– Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.”
– Rasheed Ogunlaru

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