Contentment Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

  Michael Chabon

  Animal, Men, Optimism

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.366, Open Road Media

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• All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

  John Lubbock

  Horse, Mind, Titles

  Sir John Lubbock (1904). “The beauties of nature and the wonders of the world we live in”

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• we're all golden sunflowers inside.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Happiness, Sunflower, Golden

  Allen Ginsberg (2013). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.196, Penguin UK

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• Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Oysters, Elements, May

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• Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

  Ellis Peters

  Nature, Spring, Astonishment

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Summer Of The Danes”, p.115, Head of Zeus

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• The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
  [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
  A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
  Nudus castra peto.]

  Horace

  Men, Heaven, Naked

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• The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Quality, Great Qualities

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1857). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse. ¬The Fitz-Boodle papers. Men's wives. A shabby genteel story. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond”, p.87

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• Lo and behold! God made this
  starry wold,
  The maggot and the mold; lo and
  behold!
  He taught the grass contentment
  blade by blade,
  The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

  Nathalia Crane

  Shade, Taught, Mold

  "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.

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• The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Country, League, Bulldogs

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• The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

  Joseph Addison

  Disappointment, Grief, World

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.4

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• I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.

  Frederick Douglass

  Song, Men, Islands

  Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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• I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

  Daniel Tammet

  Borders, Kind, Clear

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• The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Philosophy, Real

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• 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

  Children, Perfection, Joy

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• Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.

  Criss Jami

  Passion, Men, Romance

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

  Criss Jami

  Self, Taught, Taste

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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• Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

  Criss Jami

  Long, Imagination, Thrive

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.34, Criss Jami

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• Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
  Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Fame, Neighbor

  Alexander Pope (1823). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems”, p.20

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• Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.

  Shantideva

  Passion, Perfect, Silence

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• By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

  Michael Neill

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Michael Neill (2006). “You Can Have What You Want”, p.18, Hay House, Inc

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• May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends.
  [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos
  Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

  Ovid

  Years, May, Fame

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• Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
  Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

  Alexander Pope

  Ease, Action, Bliss

  Alexander Pope (1752). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays”, p.124

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