Contentedness Quotes

• 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.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

  Criss Jami

  Reflection

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.81, Criss Jami

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• Great men grow tired of contentedness.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Tired, Men, Genius

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• I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

  Paul the Apostle

  Giving, Secret, Needs

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• Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.

  Isaiah

  Bible, Trusting Him, Perfect

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• We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

  John Wayne

  Death, Dying, World

  "Fictional character: Thomas Dunson". "Red River", www.imdb.com. 1948.

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• Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

  Willie Nelson

  Right Now, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from May 10, 2016

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• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Life, Travel, Contentment

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• When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content.

  T. B. Joshua

  Taken, Temptation, Grace

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• Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Soul, Enemy

  "The Size of the Soul: Principles of Revival and Spiritual Growth". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1992.

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• The key to contentedness is not the absence of work; neither is it to cap each day with the witless abandon of hollow entertainment, but to fill your days with that which fills your life with meaning.

  Andrew Williams

  Keys, Each Day, Entertainment

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• To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

  Christina Ricci

  Play, Interesting, Life Is

  "Actress Christina Ricci". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 5, 2012.

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• When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

  Alistair Begg

  Luxury, Ability, Turns

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• It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.

  Jeremiah

  Worship, Contrary

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• O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

  William Ellery Channing

  Blessing, Looks, May

  William Ellery Channing (1850). “Memoir: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts”, p.144

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• Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

  Gautama Buddha

  Quality, Sound, Riches

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