We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please. . . It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.
That best of blessings, a contented mind.
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
When men are employed they are best contented.
A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. . . . With this method. . . rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.
Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.
Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.
I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
