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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
Inspirational
Best
Health
Relationship
Gift
Wealth
Contentment
Greatest Gift
Greatest
Faithfulness
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
James E. Faust
Happiness
Love
Faith
Prayer
Heart
Grateful
Courage
Contentment
Beginning
Humility
Virtues
Development
Well-Being
Greatness
Expression
Foundation
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Bernard Williams
Victory
Looking
Contentment
Pass
May
Roses
Violets
Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Thankful
Peace
Heart
Grateful
Waiting
Grace
Simple
Mind
Will
Contentment
Whatever
Peace Of Mind
Awareness
Only
Open
Abundance
Come
Surely
Ready
Us
Receive
Inner
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser
Depression
Best
Good
Business
Anxiety
Mind
Humor
Contentment
Direct
Attracts
Friends
Antidote
Burdens
Human
Body
Serenity
Asset
Route
Keeps
Tonic
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
Charles Spurgeon
Man
Peace
Revenge
Pride
Thought
Contentment
Ambition
Lust
Too
Humility
Exalted
Unworthy
Idolatry
Gods
Often
While
Holiness
Viewed
Serious
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama
You
Yourself
Practice
Contentment
Satisfied
Everything
Say
More
Never
Always
Discontent
Yes
Oh
Want
Really
Your
Desire
Need
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu
Inspirational
Health
Confidence
Joy
Contentment
Possession
Greatest
Friend
Treasure
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
Dalai Lama
Love
Justice
Honesty
People
Try
Compassion
Contentment
Benefit
All Religions
Religions
Message
Same
Basic
Need
Contentment is the only real wealth.
Alfred Nobel
Wealth
Contentment
Only
Real
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
James K. Polk
History
Peace
World
Country
Contentment
Our
Plenty
Moral
Borders
Throughout
Sublime
Reign
Spectacle
Beloved
Beloved Country
Presents
Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
Kristin Armstrong
Gratitude
Disappointment
Peace
Joy
Contentment
Give
Steal
No-One
Because
Sticky
Away
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness
Daily
Man
Contentment
Living
Thinking
High
Lies
Pursuit
He
Ideal
His
Falls
Wants
Plan
Really
Moment
Multiply
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
Abu Bakr
God
Faith
Fear
Contentment
Humility
Honour
Greatness
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.
Chanakya
Happiness
Mind
Mercy
Contentment
Virtue
Like
Equal
Balanced
Covetousness
Austerity
Disease
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson
Happiness
People
World
Looking
Contentment
While
Full
Spectacular
If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.
Heber J. Grant
Family
Peace
Heart
Will
Contentment
Human Heart
Live
Our
One Thing
Within
Any
Human
Means
Thing
Bring
I don't look for bliss, just contentment.
Alison Krauss
Contentment
Look
Bliss
Just
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
Guy Finley
Happiness
Wisdom
Strength
Peace
Heart
Wish
Contentment
Our
Find
Fearlessness
Point
Outside
Had
Reach
Hearts
Going
Where
Realize
Us
Eventually
Things
Start
Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.
Paul Henderson
Relationship
Achievement
Contentment
Come
Does
Lord
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Contentment
Simply
Indolence
Refined
After
True contentment comes with empathy.
Tim Finn
Contentment
Empathy
True
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
Abbas Kiarostami
Time
Me
Sometimes
Contentment
Nothing
Spend
Carpentry
Gives
Piece
Does
Doing
Lot
Wood
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Anthony Trollope
Life
Contentment
Immediate
Say
Must
Parent
Conceive
Want
Leisure
Which
Toil
Evening
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
Eckhart Tolle
Wonderful
Will
Contentment
Harmony
Our
Purify
Well
Then
Us
Should
Expression
Things
Innate
External
External Things
I like to feel and understand people's contentment with what I've done.
Ennio Morricone
People
Contentment
Feel
Like
Understand
Done
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