Contentment Quotes

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I don`t really hang out with a lot of people anymore. In the past I always had to surrounded myself with a crowd. Today, I just don`t need it. But while my life might seem dull to some, it`s exciting to me. That`s because through my sobriety, I`m finally able to enjoy a level of serenity that I`ve witnessed in other people but never had myself. And that kind of self-contentment can`t be purchased or acquired. It has to be earned. I`m trying to earn it. Everyday.

- Charlie Sheen

I believe that drugs are basically of more use to the audience than to the artist. I think that the illusion of oneness with the universe, and absorption with the significance of every object in your environment, and the pervasive aura of peace and contentment is not the ideal state for an artist. It tranquilizes the creative personality, which thrives on conflict and on the clash and ferment of ideas. The artist`s transcendence must be within his own work; he should not impose any artificial barriers between himself and the mainspring of his subconscious. One of the things that`s turned me against LSD is that all the people I know who use it have a peculiar inability to distinguish between things that are really interesting and stimulating and things that appear to be so in the state of universal bliss that the drug induces on a "good" trip. They seem to completely lose their critical faculties and disengage themselves from some of the most stimulating areas of life. Perhaps when everything is beautiful, nothing is beautiful.

- Stanley Kubrick

I am very happy in this side and this type of contentment doesn`t have a price. I want for nothing here and look forward to staying for many years.

- Ronaldinho Gaúcho

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

- Eugene O'Neill

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 K. Gandhi

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

- A.N. Roy

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.

- Addie Ince

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

- Ahmad Shah Massood

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

- Alan Cropsey

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

- Alexander Gregg

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

- Alexander Groschke

True humility is contentment.

- Alexander Nikonov

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

- Alexandra Starr

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

- Alfred Goldman

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

- Alfredo Alonso

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man`s stature as to his happiness.

- Allison Hanna

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

- Allison Sharp

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.

- Andy Greenberg

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...

- Angie Brown

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

- Atalay Ayele

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

- Socrates

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

- Buddha

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

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

- Lao Tzu

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

- Swami Sivananda