344 quotes found
“To live without your want is the grace of contentment.”
“Contentment is the spirit of joyful existence.”
“The root of corruption is lack of contentment.”
“She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.”
“Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.”
“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.”
“I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.”
“..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.”
“We had little but we didn't know we had little. It seemed to us that we had much and we were very content.”
“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into...”
“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
“Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children are not dressed warmly enough for winter. Real poverty is when the housing we ...”
“Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles”
“I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.”
“Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that cant be replaced by anything else.”
“When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.”
“It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption.”
“Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.”
“Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discourage...”
“To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony”
