Contentment Quotes And Sayings

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“I think the secret to a happy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.” 
– Richard Paul Evans

“Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.–” 
– Robert Murray McCheyne

“Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach 

“So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn’t necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.”
– Sarah Jessica Parker 

“Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.” 
– Sinclair Lewis

“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”
– Sivananda 

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty”
– Socrates

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” 
– Socrates

“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.” 
– Socrates

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” 
– Socrates

“And you require no answers”, Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, “You are sufficient to every question”.” 
– Stephen R Donaldson

“Search for contentment in each person you meet.”
– Steve Maraboli

“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. “ 
– Stewart Alsop

“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.”
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton 

“Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.”
– Thomas Fuller 

“It is our work to cast care, and it is God’s work to take care.” 
– Thomas Watson

“True contentment comes with empathy.”
– Tim Finn 

“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.” 
– Victor Hugo

“To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power. To surrender to the Eternal flow is to be completely present.
– Vimalia McClure

“A lonely impulse of delight” 
– W B Yeats

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
– Walt Witman

“Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.” 
– Walt Witman

“In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.”
– William Ames 

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