quotations about contentment
Blest state of earthly bliss when man or woman has learnt contentment; the winning post is reached, and he "lies on his oars." This is true religion unadulterated and undiluted. He who has lived to learn to be contented, whatever be his lot, is indeed a happy man, one that no misfortune, dangers, or trials can crush, and whose heart beats to the same time, whether in the wooden cottage or the marble-halled and granite-built mansion. Let it be the training of the young and the study of the old to learn to be contented, as a contented man is rich beyond all human calculation, and happy beyond most men's limited and small narrow-minded conceptions. The contented man or woman will most likely hereafter be one of the brightest jewels that glitter in the casket that surrounds the sapphire throne of God in the palace of the Most High, shining with surpassing lustre, where all is bright, and will remain so through everlasting time, and an eternity that shall be ever young.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
Short Essays
I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
WALT WHITMAN
Song of Myself
Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold?
BARNABE BARNES
Parthenophil and Parthenophe
The trick of being contented is to buy one model and never read the ads about the others.
ANONYMOUS
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Eat, Pray, Love
You say, "If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied." You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The New Park Street Pulpit
Awaiting the dawn
I'll find contentment
Singing your song
SARAH KELLY
"About Midnight", Where the Past Meets Today
'Tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VIII
A flying dove please lead me and I'll follow you
Above the clouds beyond the stormy sea
I long to share a world of sweet contentment there
In that bright land where grows the olive tree
EDDY ARNOLD
"Olive Tree", Walkin' in Love Land
Contentment is not resignation. A contented person is not a defeated person. True contentment never asks, "Why bother? What is the point?" Neither does true contentment equal an excuse for inaction.... Contentment doesn't wring its hands; it wrings every bit of good out of every situation.
MARCIA FORD
Essentials for Life
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
As for contentment, all that's behind me.
GANG OF FOUR
"I Fled", Hard
Be satisfied with what you have.
AESOP
"The Dog and His Shadow", Aesop's Fables
Contentment opes the source of every joy.
JAMES BEATTIE
The Minstrel
Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Comedy of Errors
Contentment is not being full to the brim; contentment is acknowledging what you lack and being okay with dancing without it. Contentment is being so absorbed in dancing for God and trusting Him so fully that you realize you have everything you need for this leg of the dance.
SHANNON KUBIAK PRIMICERIO
The Divine Dance
Content is the Philosopher's Stone, that turns all it touches into Gold.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758
Adversity is the only tutor of contentment. No man, unless his mouth has been embittered with gall, can taste the true savour of honey.
ANTHONY LISLE
The Westminster Review, Jan. 1914
Contentment is the smother of invention.
ANONYMOUS
The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom