Contentment Quotes
These are some of the best 'Contentment' quotations and sayings.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if, in the present life, his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
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A wise man will always be contented with his condition, and will live rather according to the precepts of virtue, than according to the customs of his country.
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them.
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Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchymist ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it docs the same thing by banishing the desire of them. If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising from a man's mind, body, or fortune, it makes him easy under them.
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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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He is well paid that is well satisfied.
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He that is never satisfied with anything, satisfies no one.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
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I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
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If you are but content you have enough to live upon with comfort.
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. - He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
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Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. - He has lain down to die, and the grass is already growing over him.
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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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