Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Ade

Familiarity breeds contentment.

Frank A. Clark

Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

Hermann Hesse

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

Jose Saramago

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Louis de Bernieres

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

Epictetus

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

Henry Ward Beecher

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

John Heywood

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

Contentment is not something to be gained by possession.You can not work simply at being content,but must work at making a difference.True contentment is gained by the difference you make in the lives of others.

Josh Billings

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Sathya Baba

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

Henry Miller

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

Chris Wooding

Don't confuse contentment with happiness...

Horace

Those who want much, are always much in need.

William Shakespeare

He that is well paid is well satisfied.

Frederick William Robertson

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

Hume Cronyn

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

I am very happy in this side and this type of contentment doesn't have a price. I want for nothing here and look forward to staying for many years.

Hippocrates

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

John Bunyan

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

Larry McMurtry

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

Harbhajan Singh

Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.

Josh Billings

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Mark Teixeira

If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you. You'll never be happy and you'll never be content. The only really contentment or true happiness is with Christ.

Mike Patton

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

Oscar Wilde

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

Sebastian Faulks

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

Sinclair Lewis

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Socrates

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth.