Contentment Quotes - Page 9

• It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.

  Frances Perkins

  Men, Healthy, Needs

  Frances Perkins, Joseph Paul St. Sure (1965). “Two views of American labor”

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• If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

  Laozi

  Forever, Taoism, Lasts

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• The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Desire, World, Enough

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Soul, Suffering

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

  Epictetus

  Men, Stay Positive, Choices

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.197, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Yesterday, Live In The Moment

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• Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heart, Circumstances, Submit

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• Don't confuse contentment with happiness.

  Chris Wooding

  Chris Wooding (2014). “Poison”, p.10, Scholastic UK

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• I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Running, Years, Accomplishment

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.163, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

  Donald Miller

  Jobs, Joy, Stories

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.197, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Joy, Castles, Cottages

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• When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

  Kay Arthur

  Pleasing Others, Able, Approval

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• To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.

  Laozi

  People, Words Of Wisdom, Enlightenment

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• As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Thinking, Practice

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• Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Believe, Inner Peace

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• Now I find that in a state of pure obedience the mind learns contentment in appearing weak and foolish to that wisdom which is of the world; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place and are rightly exercised under the cross will find nourishment.

  John Woolman

  Mind, World, Foolish

  "The Journal of John Woolman".

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• What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Couple, Mean, Passion

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.

  Jack Kornfield

  Running, Dog, Fall

  "A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times". Book by Jack Kornfield, www.lionsroar.com. 2011.

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• Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Understanding, Soul, Enjoyment

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• You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

  John Ortberg

  Joy, Everyday, Everyday Life

  John Ortberg (2014). “Soul Keeping Study Guide: Caring for the Most Important Part of You”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.

  Harbhajan Singh

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• Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Needs, Want

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• Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Literature, Misery, Produce

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• My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Soul, World, Reason Why

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.35, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don't nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becomes filled with happiness. Don't have any desire for peace, and see how the turmoil within you vanishes. Don't beg for contentment and see how contentment showers down on you. Please try this - only then will you understand.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Heart, Desire

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