Contentment Quotes
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Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will of God; seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.
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Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
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Submission is the only reasoning between a creature and its maker and contentment in his will is the best remedy we can apply to misfortunes.
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That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy. Happiness consists, not in possessing much, but in being content with what we possess. He who wants little always has enough.
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The contented man is never poor; the discontented never rich.
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The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to see happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove.
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The noblest mind the best contentent has.
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There is a sense in which a man looking at the present in the light of the future, and taking his whole being into account, may be contented with his lot: that is Christian contentment. - But if a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says, "I do not want to know any more, or do any more, or be any more," he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy! - Of all hideous things a mummy is the most hideous; and of mummies, the most hideous are those that are running about the streets and talking.
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To be content with even the best people, we must be contented with little and bear a great deal. Those who are most perfect have many imperfections, and we have great faults; between the two, mutual toleration becomes very difficult.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
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