To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.
Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.
Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.
Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment but I couldn't. I didn't find it in pushing the dark things of life to the limit either.
What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life
It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.
A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living.
Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.
Familiarity breeds contentment.
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.
All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.