Nothing is more dangerous than contentment without progression.

Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.

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

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

If all I had was all that money could buy, I’d be bankrupt!” EL

Contentment has learned how to find out what she needs to know. Last year she went on a major housecleaning spree. First she stood on her head until all the extra facts fell out. Then...

Contentment achieve inwardly change outer realities

There’s Nothing To Hide When Your Soul Is Not Guilty….

We need much less than we think we need.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Happiness is wanting what you have.

Contentment is the only real wealth

Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.

Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling.

The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been...

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one’s ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one’s share.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse. And vice versa.

Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

I didn’t feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

Think back. How many of your sweetest dreams, your greatest hopes, your most cherished desires have come true?On the other hand, how much of what you didn’t really care about wound up happening anyway?What you...

I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were out, like a malarial mosquito.

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

Most beautiful of all was the tarnished gold of the elms, with a little brown in it, a little bronze, a little blue, even– a blue like amethyst, which made them melt into the azure...

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It’s the same with happiness, the very same…happiness doesn’t depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life....

Whatever worldly thing we may covet – zealously striving to obtain and then retain – never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral,...

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

Money brings courage with it but lock contentment behind.

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn’t make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn’t crave for anything apart from your own thing.

Happiness is seeing blessings in disguise, beauty under camouflage, and love amid conflict.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

One way to tell if you’re really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don’t feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or...

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.

Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Happiness isn’t a thing. You can’t go out and get it like a cup of tea. It’s the way you feel about things.