If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make. Contentment does not mean that we never want to see change or improvement, but it does mean we can be happy where we are and will do the best we can with what we have. It also means we will maintain an attitude that allows us to enjoy the gift of life.
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.
Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.
Real contentment must come from within. You and I can not change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.
Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.
In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.
True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.
Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.
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.
Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.
Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.
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