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Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.
I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.
Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.
What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.
Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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.
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.
We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.
Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the Vedas say.
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.
While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.
If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.
No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.
Real contentment must come from within. You and I can not change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.
Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.
I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.
Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.