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 SpurgeonTags: contentment satisfaction
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
Jeremiah BurroughsTags: contentment trust
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Henry FieldingTags: contentment inner-peace
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph AddisonTags: contentment inner-peace
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Ann BrasharesTags: contentment satisfaction
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Lao TzuTags: perception acceptance self-acceptance contentment self-assurance self-confidence
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.
One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.
Tags: self-esteem contentment self-satisfaction
She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.
George OrwellTags: contentment joy singing motherhood
He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.
Anna GodbersenTags: love contentment dreams
If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.
Richard MathesonTags: contentment sleep death
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