Quotes about contentment
contentment alive able
For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now. Alan Watts
contentment unhappy not-happy
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it. Alan Bennett
contentment wish littles
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. Charles Lamb
contentment digital needs
Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content. Bob Iger
contentment rich poor
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. Benjamin Franklin
contentment cure discontent gets kinds loses second success
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
contentment lions paws
But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest. Billy Collins
contentment deeds ifs
If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few. Democritus
contentment dark horses ran silver smiles
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment. Jack Bruce
contentment too-much tvs
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. David Niven
contentment either sad
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. Eugene O'Neill
contentment looks bliss
I don't look for bliss, just contentment. Alison Krauss
contentment wealth genuine
Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment. Adrian Rogers
contentment crown diamonds indian kings nor seldom
My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. William Shakespeare
contentment health labour source
From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
contentment world enough
There are enough resources in the world for everyone. Bryant H. McGill
contentment world morality
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? Alain de Botton
contentment elements
Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness. Aesop
contentment satisfied
Be satisfied with what you have.
contentment ease action
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. Alexander Pope
contentment desire purpose
Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Dalai Lama
contentment wealth relation
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.
contentment enough should
I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same... Claude Monet
contentment borders kind
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. Daniel Tammet
contentment aging accepting
Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life. David Gerrold
contentment half life problems
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
contentment deprived endure endured happy highest lowest man misfortune
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
contentment food gossip obtain perfect provisions tolerance
Faith, contentment and tolerance are the food and provisions of the angels. They obtain the Perfect Vision of the Lord, while those who gossip find no place of rest.
contentment
Our content Is our best having.
contentment needs realizing
Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness. Bill Gothard
contentment cows
Total contentment is only for cows. Bette Midler
contentment flee happiness pursue
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
contentment want needs
I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment. James Macdonald