Contentment Quotes - Page 26

• Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
  That is contentment.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Should, Success Or Failure

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

  Marc Maron

  Effort, Brain, Overwhelmed

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I give to my friends the assurance that if they will recast their ideas and attitudes about the relative importance of the spiritual to the material, and bring themselves to participate in the mighty cause of establishing God's kingdom in the earth, they will find a satisfaction, a sureness of purpose, a peace and contentment, surpassing anything they have ever known.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Spiritual, Peace, Attitude

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• The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.

  Billy Graham

  Peace, Roots, Giving

  Billy Graham (1977). “The Secret of Happiness”, Pocket

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• Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

  Tom Robbins

  Memories, Wish, Needs

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.344, Bantam

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• We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

  Joshua Ferris

  Giving, Imagination, Adequate

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• I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

  Lian Hearn

  Believe, Government, People

  Lian Hearn (2005). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Journey to Inuyama. episode 2”, Puffin

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• On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spring, War, Passion

  "Pensées and Other Writings".

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• If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

  Oliver Sacks

  Nice, Blessed, Heart

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• Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

  Hafez

  Doors, Choices, Frowning

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• Familiarity breeds contentment.

  George Ade

  Familiarity

  George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”

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• The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Marriage, Smart, Men

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• If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.

  Democritus

  Deeds, Knows, Ifs

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• Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

  Winston Groom

  Chocolate, Idiot, Boxes

  Winston Groom (2002). “Forrest Gump”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like contentment, which sounds like settling, letting the fire go out. Actually, peace of mind allows you to go more deeply into the world and consequently to experience more excitement and ecstasy. The fire burns brighter, fueled by awareness instead of anxiety.

  Jennifer James

  Peace, Giving Up, Mean

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• Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Animal, Men

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

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• What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?

  Don Henley

  Relationship, Doors, Voice

  Song: The Heart of the Matter

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• Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of the future. We are afraid of things that have not yet happened, but which if they did might bring us pain, suffering, or some other discomfort - or stand in the way of some future contentment. And we are afraid that circumstances that are already causing us displeasure may continue in the future.

  Russell Peters

  Pain, Essence, Suffering

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• The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Band

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• With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

  Criss Jami

  Regret, Philosophy, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.

  Criss Jami

  Hands, Feelings, Sound

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

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• 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

  Negative, Shows, Fortunate

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.60, Criss Jami

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• Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.

  David Shi

  Purpose, Who We Are, Moral

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• In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.

  Paul Brand

  Careers, Clothes, Expectations

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• And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Good Life, Elude Us, Water

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