Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.
Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.
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.
When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want. . . . . If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.
I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.
Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.
He is the richest who is content with the least.
If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.
Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.
The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
A lonely impulse of delight