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“There is an unmistakable freedom that accompanies contentment: a freedom to be who you are, enjoy who you are, and live the life you were destined to live.”

Enjoy Who You Are Live Life Contentment Destined Accompany Be Who You Are

Author:Josh Becker

“Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.”

Giving May Powerful Principles Financial Debt Contentment Most Powerful

Author:Dave Ramsey

“Contentment is an undervalued grace.”

Grace Contentment Undervalued

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!”

World Ideas Whole Crime Whole World Contentment Immorality Caged Right Ideas Hyenas

Author:Will Rogers

“Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited about something it's contagious.”

People Fun Our Lives Excited Excitement Contentment Contagious

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.”

Needs Self Knowing Circumstances Contentment

Book:Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships

Source: Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships

“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.”

Believe Matter Hard Talking Hunger Strikes Gods Will Contentment Leaning In

Author:Charles Frazier

“Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.”

Hands Suffering Asks Ready Equal Illness Refuse Contentment Providence Distress Consolation

Author:Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

“[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.”

“The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .”

Men Kind Soul Together Spiritual Hell He Man Contentment Coherence Clique

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Admit to your contentment so it can tip over into joy.”

Joy Contentment

Author:Danielle LaPorte

“Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.”

Ifs Art Contentment

Author:Saint Augustine

“There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'”

Ifs Men Long Said Self Hands Joy Forever Journey Discovery Angel Add Satisfaction Creator Self Discovery Contentment Exploration Legends Long Life Life Journey

Book:How to Get what You Want

Source: How to Get what You Want

“I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the current. . ." It may not be the recipe for a life of contentment, but that imperfectability is what makes writing such an engaging endeavor, something you can do for the rest of your life and not get bored.”

Thinking Writing May Next Can Do Beats Currents Boat Bored Contentment Endeavor Next Time Engaging Recipes Rest Of Your Life

Author:Debra Dean

“Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment but I couldn't. I didn't find it in pushing the dark things of life to the limit either.”

Trying Whole Dark Industry Limits Ultimate Contentment Pushing Far Away Skateboarding Dark Things

Author:Christian Hosoi

“Who would have ever thought I'd find love, contentment and joy in a prison cell, but I did. I knew that I knew that I knew that day, I'd been released, and I thought to myself, "I need to tell everyone about this" because no one had ever told me.”

Needs Joy Prison Cells Contentment Finding Love Prison Cells

Author:Christian Hosoi

“In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.”

“I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.”

People Way Mean I Can Natural Mystery Contentment Criticize Mystical Mystery Of God

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. So merely changing formal religious affiliations will often not help much. On the other hand, in pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!”

“The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.”

Knows World This World Lovers Contentment Absent

Author:Teresa of Avila

“Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.”

Ifs World Feels Ideas Whole Feelings Problem Faces Values Turns Asks Given Interesting Demand Satisfaction Tricks Contentment What If Gratification Flip How You Feel Face Value

Author:Ian Bogost

“There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.”

Moments Contentment Moments Of Happiness

Author:Indira Gandhi

“If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.”

Ifs Mean Ordinary Satisfied Contentment

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they come to the Dharma, have led a pretty full worldly life with lots of sensual pleasures, money and lots of toys to play with. They have seen that the path of accumulation of worldly treasure does not lead to happiness or contentment. That's why they come to the Dharma.”

People Doe Play Pleasure Practice Path Position Western Treasure Sensual Contentment Toys Worldly Accumulation Dharma Renunciation Uneducated Worldly Life Westerners Sensual Pleasure

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I'm talking about people who claim to love people. I'm talking about people who claim to love and represent the little guy. They're the people that tell us that if not for them, the little guy would be trampled on daily. Well, if they really cared about the little guy, if they really cared about the little guy, and want the little guy to have an improved life, more contentment, more happiness, then the United States is what you would emulate. You certainly wouldn't tear it down.”

People Ifs Want Wells Littles States Would Be Guy United Talking United States Tears Claims Contentment Emulate

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.”

Growth Contentment Decay Stagnation

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I had been reading a lot of J.G. Ballard in the 90's and was fascinated by the idea of the vapid consumer society, the erotic charge of modern life, where the consumerist things we are coveting are just another form of destroying oneself - a modern world of uncertainty, where lost souls are trying to grab onto something for sense of contentment.”

World Trying Soul Reading Modern Oneself Uncertainty Contentment

Author:Miles Aldridge

“I think that an actor shouldn't work from a place of fear, because it'll show in your work. You should work from a place of contentment, relaxation, and coming from your heart, and from the truth of yourself.”

Thinking Heart Contentment Relaxation

Author:Rutina Wesley

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”

“There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.”

Greatness Humility Contentment Honour Greatness Of God Caliphs Contentment And Peace Contentment Peace

Author:Abu Bakr

“When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'”

Want Needs Desire Practice Satisfied Contentment Being Happy Discontent

Author:Dalai Lama

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

“My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.”

Littles Wish Contentment Anticipation Motto My Motto

Book:The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works

Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works

“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”

Thinking World Writing States Novel Modern Statements Innocent Contentment Passages Perpetual Drunkenness Rite Good Humor Rite Of Passage Scanning Edginess

Author:J. G. Ballard

“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.”

World Want Mind Littles Two States Body Happiness Wish Sound This World Contentment Description Sound Mind Sound Body

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

“Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.”

Persons Different Healing Progress Seeing Contentment

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

Men World Mind Enjoy This World Blessing Blessed Inner Peace Contentment Count Your Blessings Greatest Blessings

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“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.”

Children Joy Areas Perfection Our Children Strive Contentment

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.”

Source: The Summer Of The Danes

“Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.”

World Country Moral Plenty Beloved Borders Contentment Patriotic Reign Sublime World History Beloved Country Contentment And Peace Contentment Peace

Book:Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce

Source: Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.”

Loses Contentment

Author:Jose Saramago

“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.”

Enough Poor Money Poverty Rich Simplicity Contentment Poorest Rich And Poor Simple Living Frugality Rich Poor Riches And Poors Poor In Spirit

Author:William Shakespeare

“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”

Way Ends Happiness Joy Laughter Best Way Acquire Contentment Craving Discontentment

Author:Sivananda

“Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.”

Men Soul Growth Simple Issues Health Depends Contentment

Author:George A. Smith

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.”

Ifs Men Principles Add Height Contentment Stations Worldly Alas Grandeur Stature

Book:The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life

Source: The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life

“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”

Ifs World Feels Whole Life Is Relationship Emotional Whole World Best Things Contentment Sweat Soulmate Love Relationship Wedding Anniversary Stop Loving You

Author:Keith Sweat

“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.”

Kind Clear Borders Contentment Happiness Within

Author:Daniel Tammet

“What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.”

Humor Happiness Attitude Dresses Educational Inner Peace Positive Attitude Contentment Articles Great Happiness Inner Happiness Good Humor Great Attitude Good Attitude Great Positive Attitude Inner Peace And Happiness Positive Attitude And Success

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

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