Contentment And Peace Quotes

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Mind, Contentment, Moments

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Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Laozi

Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

Agency, Mind, Contentment

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Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Gautama Buddha

Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

Gautama Buddha, “Joy”

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Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.

Isaiah

Bible, Trusting Him, Perfect

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1417, Barbour Publishing

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Life, Meaningful, Peace

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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

Happiness, Smile, Happy

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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

Og Mandino

Lying, Effort, Joy

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Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.

Mary Howitt

Peace, Flower, Men

Mary Howitt (1855). “Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].”, p.11

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True happiness lies within you.

Og Mandino

Lying, Contentment Peace, True Happiness

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Realize that true happiness lies within you.

Lucian

Inspirational, Faith, Wisdom

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The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Mind, Contentment

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You can't find peace by avoiding life.

Michael Cunningham

Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

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If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

Dalai Lama

Simple, Simplicity, Feelings

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I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

James E. Faust

Spiritual, Gratitude, Home

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Michael Cunningham

Peace, Avoiding Death, Avoiding Pain

"The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

Henry Miller

Contentment, Difficult, Difficult Things

Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

Dalai Lama

Simple, Contentment, Shelter

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When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.

Beverly LaHaye

Contentment, Contentment Peace, Peace And Happiness

Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers

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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Khalil Gibran

Inspirational, Life, Truth

Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

"The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health". "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health", Vol. LXXXV, p. 170, September, 1887.

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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Fanny Burney

Ambition, Expectations, Mind

Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Contentment, Needs, Realization

"The Lord's Prayer" with Leslie Basham, www.reviveourhearts.com. August 29, 2016.

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