Contentment Quotes - Page 13

• The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. From the spiritual point of view, such a life is the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants and is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Views

  "Meher Baba on God-realization: The Practical Side of Self-realization".

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• A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Powerful, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.309, Library of America

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• I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience.

  Umar

  Wisdom, Islamic, Offering

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• Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Mean

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• By Allah, whenever I endure any adversity I gain four blessings of Allah in exchange. The first of them is, when the adversity is not caused by my sin (virtue is earned). The second, when the adversity is not greater than my sin (virtue is earned). The third, when I am not deprived of contentment (virtue is earned). And the fourth, I hope for virtues thereby.

  Umar

  Wisdom, Islamic, Adversity

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• We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

  Immanuel Kant

  Being Happy, Men, Enjoy Life

  Immanuel Kant, James Wesley Ellington (1994). “Ethical Philosophy: The Complete Texts of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, Part II of The Metaphysics of Morals, with On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns”, p.8, Hackett Publishing

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• Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Home

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• There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

  Ray Charles

  Sadness, Too Much, Happiness And Sadness

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• If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

  Alistair Begg

  Selfish, Expectations, May

  Alistair Begg (2004). “Pathway to Freedom: How God's Law Guides Our Lives”, p.215, Moody Publishers

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• Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

  Bill Gothard

  Needs, Realizing

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• Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Failure, Long, Reign

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.844

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• It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Complacency, Steps, Bigs

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• Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance.

  Oral Roberts

  Men, Vision, Balance

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• A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

  Dalai Lama

  Wealth, Relation, Physical Health

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• I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Giving, Want, Path

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• It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Rich Or Poor, Matter, Factors

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• Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Hands, Desire

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• True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Greed

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• Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.

  Julianne MacLean

  Writing, Make You Smile, Earth

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• Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!

  Olivia Wilde

  Beautiful, Thinking, Artist

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Adventures in Beauty". Interview with Taylor Barringer, www.elle.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

  Hippocrates

  Physicians, Medical, Patient

  Hippocrates (1923). “Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment”, Loeb Classical Library

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• No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.

  Emily St. John Mandel

  Dream, Baby, Halloween

  Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.39, Vintage

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• What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Men, Feelings

  "Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo".

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• We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.72

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• Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.

  Robert Thurman

  Military, Creativity, Independent

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