Quotes
Quotes about Contentment
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.
Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.
Whatever we are waiting forâ peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundanceâ it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
