Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old contentment quotes, contentment sayings, and contentment proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
He who is contented is rich.Lao Tzu
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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.Lao Tzu
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At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.Elizabeth Gilbert
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To know when you have enough is to be rich beyond measure.Lao Tzu
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.Epicurus
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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.Thomas Fuller
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Discontentment makes rich people poor while contentment makes poor people rich.unknown
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Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.John Ford
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Contentment has the ability to squeeze out of every situation all the good there is to get.Shantidasa
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When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.Francois La Rochefoucauld
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Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities of not trying to make ourselves this or that, but of surrendering ourselves to the fullness of life of letting life flow through us.David Grayson
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The key to contentment is to consider. Consider who you are and be satisfied with that. Consider what you have and be satisfied with that. Consider what God's doing and be satisfied with that. You will be amazed at how much more comfortable you'll feel with yourself. Finally, consider this: If contentment cannot be found within yourself, you'll never find it.Luci Swindoll
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The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.unknown
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Neither circumstances nor surroundings can bring contentment. Only by fitting ourselves to meet conditions as they are, calmly and courageously, may we hope to reconcile ourselves to our position and conditions of life.Fred Van Amburgh
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A harvest of peace grows from seeds of contentment.Indian Proverbs
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.Lao Tzu
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.Mohandas Gandhi
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Contentment is the greatest form of wealth.Acharya N_G_Rjuna
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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.Swami Sivananda
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He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.Socrates
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Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.John Balguy
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Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is.Josh Billings
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Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.Joni Eareckson Tada
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A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. So if we have enough of what we need, let us be content with that.Saint Timothy
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Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.Denis Waitley
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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
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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.Epictetus
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.Lin Yutang
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.Socrates
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The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.Jose Saramago
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Contentment is accepting what God has given us, and, by His strength, making the most of it.C. J. Jackson
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Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Contentment is not about getting what you want. Contentment is about wanting what you've got.Ken Clark
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Content hangs not so high but that a man on the ground may reach it.Eliza Cook
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.Charles Lamb
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.Joseph Addison
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The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.Hung Ko
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It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.James Mackintosh
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It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.Vivian Greene
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.Aesop
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A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.Fred Estabrook
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.Plautus
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True contentment is a real, even an active virtue - not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it.G. K. Chesterton
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To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
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Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads.Henry S. Haskins
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Contentment: The smother of invention.Ethel Watts Mumford
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.Plautus
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Progress is not created by contented people.Frank Tyger
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Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.Linda Dillow
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To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.George Woodberry
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I have learned to manage with whatever I have. I know how to live modestly, and I know how to live luxuriously, too: in every way now I have mastered the secret of all conditions: full stomach and empty stomach. plenty and poverty.Philippians 4:11-12
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The rarest feeling that ever lights the human face is the contentment of a loving soul.Henry Ward Beecher
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He who is not contented with little will never be satisfied with much.Thomas Benton Brooks
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Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.Alban Goodier
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The children of Israel did not find in the manna all the sweetness and strength they might have found in it; not because the manna did not contain them, but because they longed for meat.St. John of the Cross
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A contented mind is a continual feast.Roman Proverb
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Better is a little with contentment than much with contention.Poor Richard
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He is blessed who knows how to be satisfied; he is poor who does not feel content.Japanese Proverb
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He is well-constituted who grieves not for what he has not, and rejoices for what he has.Italian Proverb
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Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.Socrates
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Contentment is the soil in which true joy grows.Socrates
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The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment.Joseph Addison
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Contentment makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.Benjamin Franklin
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Contentment doesn't come from doing what we like to do, but from liking what we must do.Wilfred Peterson
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Preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and be thankful for every pulse and every breath.Konrad Von Gesner
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If you have a contented mind, you have to enjoy life with.Plautus
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It is necessary to the contentment of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.Thomas Paine
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.Edmund Spenser
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Content will ever dwell but in a meek and quiet soul.Izaak Walton
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To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.Old Proverb
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Content is wealth, the riches of the mind; / And happy he who can that treasure find.John Dryden
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For not that, which men covet most, is best, / Nor that thing worst, which men do most refuse; / But fittest is, that all contented rest, / With that they hold: each half is a fortune in his breast.Edmund Spenser
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A mind content, both Crown and Kingdom has.Robert Greene
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.Henry Ward Beecher
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Content is the true riches, for without it there is no satisfying.Martin Tupper
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If we fasten our attention on what we have, rather than on what we lack, very little wealth is sufficient.Francis Johnson
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.Cicero
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Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.Spanish Proverb
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Desire upon desire causes the greatest sorrow; contentment, the greatest happiness.Sanskrit
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Contentment is the realization of how much I already have.Dave Grant