Nothing is more dangerous than contentment without progression.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it’s a trade-off that will gladly be made.

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

The one who finds contentment is truly rich.

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the...

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you...

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don’t mean “fine” or “basically satisfied.” I don’t mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I’m in the right life.

My modus operandi is that I’ll be content with anything, as long as I know that it’s the best that’s possible.

And you require no answers”, Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, “You are sufficient to every question”.

Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith–contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor and I know that ambition–the desire to succeed–to have power–leads to most ills...

He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window,...

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

Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey.

Well, aren’t you just saying it’s better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

I couldn’t ignore the fact that it felt good. So. Very. Good. To be held, in bed, in the arms of a tall, strong, handsome man.

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism…Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

A man’s well-being depends upon his degree of contentment. ‘ 

You don’t have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars; rather than having a closed door to lock them in?

My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is nothappiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.

You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.

Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous; let the world be the world still; you cannot prevent it. Let every...

…there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent…

I am living my dreams.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Just resign yourself to the fact that you’re going to be miserable so you can finally be happy. (It’s a sound theory if you think about it hard enough.)

When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.

Happy are those who evolve from within.

(about William Blake)As for Blake’s happiness–a man who knew him said: “If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me.”And...

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.

I felt a taste of that other kind of contentment that doesn’t come from acquiring information or getting praise or building a resume, the kind that is just there, like a hidden pearl.

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a...

You know someone’s okay if they can ignore things they can’t do anything about and move on.

Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children are not dressed warmly enough for winter. Real poverty is when the housing...

Dreams aren’t only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment.

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

As impossible as this may seem (in infertility), try to reach outside of yourself and realize all of the things that you are able to do for now because you do not have children. There...

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