…she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer’s wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.

I don’t know why people do the things they do to each other. We’re all here to live out lives, to do our work, to raise our families, to love who we love. We’re all here for the same things, but some, they can’t let that be. They can’t be happy or content with that....

Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment.

Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has.

Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If...

I’m very content.

I’ve swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark,inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I’m not really touching the money.

The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a...

Was I happy? Maybe more content thanbouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?

Content zips around the Internet thanks to code – programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.

It’s normal for us to become unhappy for a while due to how circumstances in life treat us, but it is ungodly for us to be ungrateful for these circumstances that make us unhappy!

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

When we are content and secure in ourselves, it leaves with having no desire to set ourselves up as superior to anyone else. When we simply celebrate our own individuality we allow others to do the same.

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.

…it’s been amazing- not perfect, but amazing. I’m actually glad of the nonperfection because that has made our relationship feel more grounded, solid, and real than what I had (…), which just cruised blithely along, deceptively perfect, until it crashed and burned in a fiery wreck.

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren’t any shortcuts. You can’t write an algorithm for it. You can’t predict it. You can’t code it.

I don’t purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.

Quality, relevant content can’t be spotted by an algorithm. You can’t subscribe to it. You need people – actual human beings – to create or curate it.

The blessed privilege of obtaining glorious riches in Jesus Christ, makes me content with life.

It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong.

I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don’t have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.

There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can’t do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!

Réduites à des théories générales, les mathématiques seraient une belle forme sans contenu.Reduced to general theories, mathematics would be a beautiful form without content.

To be happy, count your blessings and discount the lessings.

People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!

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.

Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.

There is no creation without tradition; the ‘new’ is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I’m quite content.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

The inventor…looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

Anger can be managed to becomeemotional content that raises power.

As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it’s just a software update.

A few of us always compared anything good to: ‘ Isn’t it just like camp?’ When we first got married, we asked each other, ‘Was your honeymoon good?’ ‘Yeah. It was just like camp.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

Young writers need to be encouraged to write – just write – with no restrictions on form, style or content.

Excellent content is available online to everyone. I like it because it’s a flattening of the playing field.

Our attitude is like a mirror that reveals and reflects the contents of our personality

There’s always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It’s how you lend some authority to what you write – you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.

The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.