344 quotes found
“I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is n...”
“Contentment is the only real wealth”
“She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;perfect, in being much too short.”
“Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.”
“Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and...”
“Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.”
“No, of course not. I just feel content, she said carefully.Thats an old persons word, said Ethan.”
“This book is not the memoir of a contented man. It's not the poignant reflections of a white-haired guru who has finally figured out the secret to contentment. It's more like sweaty, bloody, hastil...”
“So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.”
“Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave.”
“True affluence is not needing anything.”
“Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of smal...”
“She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.”
“Be happy in the day - Today is enough - Each moment is all we need in the today given and not the tomorrow to come”
“...'This is what I have seen to be good and proper: that one should eat and drink and find enjoyment for all the hard work at which he toils under the sun during the few days of life that the true ...”
“Never be content with your work, even if you are good at what you do, look at tightrope walkers they don't stay in one place for a long time, they keep moving because no matter how confident they ...”
“She pats my knee. Im going to tell you something my grandmother told me when I was fifteen years old. `Eliza, you wont ever be content with someone if you cant learn how to be content by yourself f...”
“I HAVE PLENTYI know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have the learned the secret of being content in any and every situation. Whether well fed or hungry , whether l...”
“Godliness with contentment is rare.”
“We speak of searching for happiness, of finding contentment, as if these were locations on an atlas, actual places that we could visit if only we had the proper map and the right navigational skills.”
