Nothing is more dangerous than contentment without progression.

He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.

The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love.

Maybe I don’t know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness.

It’s a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don’t quite know why mine didn’t, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.

A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.

There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight. There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs. And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in God’s service. So lift up your eyes. Refuse to be unhappy.

I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.

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

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

A thankful and a contented spirit is a continual feast. We ought to be contented, and we shall be contented, if we are in the habit of seeing God in everything, and living upon Him day by day. Oh, for a spirit of true thankfulness!

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.

In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one other. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many things depend upon this thing? God may have some work to do twenty years hence...

Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man...

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

All the arguing in the world won’t change the mind of the Umpire.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth.

why”—so as to leave nothing more. To speak, or think, of these many questions is to sound like I’m whining. But I am whining, about why….

Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased. Love is happiness.

I think it’s a real gift to be able to say that what’s in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.

That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someone’s existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her.

If one bite fills you, you don’t need two.

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have been smart enough to learn a lesson that we’re awfully slow to get… They know that being rich doesn’t have any damn thing to do with how much money you’ve got. It’s got to do...

I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me.

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

While many of us admire nice things, materialism and suffering may share a connection. When we place a great deal of our happiness in material things, we run the great risk of losing our happiness when our material things become lost, old, or damaged. Toys break. Cars get dents. Clothes get ripped. Jewels get lost...

Success is not a journey, it’s a destination called satisfaction.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

In a person’s lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.

Wanting less is probably a better blessing than having more.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven’t a chance of getting.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.–

Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

A character began to speculate whether the incessant drive to have things over again might be the root of all evil.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else’s cookie…in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

…are you happy?””I am content.””What is the difference?””Between happiness and contentment? Ah, there you have me. It is not easy to put into words. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are...