Contentment Quotes

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Neil Gaiman
“I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else”
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I am thinking about the joy in loose ends,
even the unresolved ones,
even the pointy sharp ones that stab me periodically,
because nothing nothing nothing
is ever completely
over.

And right now, I'm good with that.”
Shellen Lubin

Robin S. Baker
“I am content, relaxed, creating, and focused on watering my own garden.”
Robin S. Baker

Nate Hamon
“Success is not a stamp of approval given by others.”
Nate Hamon, Terra Dark

Steve Goodier
“What keeps you from the inner peace and contentment you crave now? Must life's battles be fought and won before you can be satisfied?”
Steve Goodier

Iris Murdoch
“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”
Iris Murdoch

Robin S. Baker
“You have to become content with not understanding the reasoning behind everyone's actions and words. You're not meant to. That is their journey. Your job is to move forward regardless.”
Robin S. Baker

Eckhart Tolle
“The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.”
Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Sarah J. Maas
“No one would prevent her from venturing into the city, to a tavern, and drinking herself silly. No one would come to haul her back. She'd made it down the stairs. Life lay before her.

Only, she found herself looking up. Toward the House where a Starfall party would be held in an hour. The male who would be there, who's encouraged her to come.

She faced the city- the lovely, vibrant city. None of it seemed as vibrant as what waited above. The climb would be brutal, and almost without end, but at the top... Cassian would be waiting. As he had waited for her for years now.

Nesta smiled. And began the climb.”
Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

Seneca
“Democritus says: "One man means as much to me as multitude, and a multitude only as much as one man." The following also as nobly spoken by someone or other, for it is doubtful who the author was; they asked him what was the object of all this study applied to an art that would reach but very few. He replied: "I am content with a few, content with one, content with none at all." The third saying- and a noteworthy one, too- is by Epicurus, written to one of the partners of his studies: "I write this not for the many, but for you; each of us is enough of an audience for the other.”
Seneca, Letters From A Stoic | Moral Letters To Lucilius

“More is better" turns out to be a formula for dissatisfaction. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.”
Joe Dominguez Vicki Robin, Your money or your life, richest man in babylon and mindset with muscle 3 books collection set

Robin S. Baker
“Content, relaxed, creating, and focused on watering my own garden.”
Robin S. Baker

Lenfantvivant
“Stand for nothing, and you are free.”
Lenfantvivant

Jeremiah Burroughs
“Now we should labour to keep the work of God upon our souls which was present at our conversion; for conversion must not be only at one instant at first. Men are deceived in this, if they think their conversion is finished merely at first; you must be in a way conversion to God all the days of your life, and therefore Christ said to his disciples, 'Except ye be converted and become as little children?' Ye be converted. Why? Were they not converted before? Yes, they were converted, but they were still to continue the work of conversion all the days of their lives. What work of God there is at at the first conversion is to abide afterwards.”
Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

Lenfantvivant
“Because you lack contentment which comes naturally with being, there are sentiments, so you have something to hold on to, like any fiction.”
Lenfantvivant

AVIS Viswanathan
“Grief has a lasting, and often transformational, impact. It pervades every pore in your body and settles in your soul. You may surely find Happiness over time. But it will be a very different experience being happy again after you have experienced what grief is. What grief does is that it makes you understand contentment as the truest form of Happiness. And that’s what Happiness really is – it lies in living each moment fully, gratefully, with what you have, with what is.”
AVIS Viswanathan

Allene vanOirschot
“Gratitude and contentment don't stop you from pursuing your dreams; they keep your heart from trying to live somebody else's.”
Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer

“When I stand alone with the earth and sky a feeling of something in me going off in every direction into the unknown of infinity means more to me than any organized religion gives me.”
Georgia O’Keeffe

Lia Louis
“And I don't have a corner sofa or a sweater-wearing husband. But I am here. The Noelle of right now, is right here.”
Lia Louis, Eight Perfect Hours

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Giving you a ‘piece of my mind’ evidences the fact that I probably don’t have much ‘peace of mind.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sarah J. Maas
“I linked my arm through his, nestling into his warmth. 'It's strange,' I murmured.

Rhys angled his head. 'What is?'

I smiled. At him, at the Rainbow, at the city. 'This feeling, this excitement to wake up every day. To see you, and to work, and to just be here.'

Nearly a year ago, I'd told him the opposite. Wished for the opposite. His face softened, as if he, too, remembered it. And understood.”
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight

“I've stopped preoccupying myself with the idea that my happiness is dependent on whatever might lie ahead in the future (in this case, buying a house). Contentment within my home is something I can find now - but only if I allow myself to actually appreciate the act of real living.

Contentment within your home is something you can find now, not in a far-off home-owning future.”
Medina Grillo, Home Sweet Rented Home: Transform Your Home Without Losing Your Deposit

Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“Smiling is a state of inner contentment. So smile.”
Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“We are to love our husbands and children! The current of our culture hits us with selfish waves of entitlement, in attempts to slam us against the rocks of discontent, leaving us with a desire for liberation from family and home. I implore you, through the grace of God and in faithful obedience to His Word, fight against the grain. Find like-minded women who will fight alongside you. Find women who will swim against the cultural tide with you and who will help you stand back up when you have hit the rocks of discontent.”
Emmalee Stanton, Hospitality: Obedience To God, Love For Neighbor

Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“An external smile is an expression of gratitude. An internal smile is the contentment, knowing and accepting the fact that nothing is permanent.”
Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“Our sense of being enough isn't something we achieved, it's something we received. It's not something that we create, it's something that's conferred upon us by another.”
Ken Shigematsu, Survival Guide for the Soul Video Study: How to Flourish Spiritually in a World that Pressures Us to Achieve

“Facing our true selves is the first step toward living a life of purpose, connection, and genuine joy.”
Oscar Auliq-Ice, Let's Face It

“I'm glad I learned that I'm rich, before I had money.”
Jonathan E. Simon

“The principles of living with contentment include the capacity to always be grateful, able to acknowledge and accept what cannot be changed, and face trial with humility.”
Raihan Zubir

Matt Haig
“In this world of interdependence, opposite emotions are also connected. As William Blake put it "joy and woe are woven fine". I know this because one of the reasons I love life is because I was once suicidal. I have sincerely known moments of content in my life for having gone through years of hell.”
Matt Haig, The Comfort Book