In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.
He is the richest who is content with the least.
Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.
There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
With all our crime and all our immorality. . . and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!
Contentment: The smother of invention.
We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.
We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.
May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat. , Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares. ]
The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.
People are never free of trying to be content.
My writer friends, and they are legion, do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.