45 Contentment Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Frances Burney

Mind Free First Contentment Ambition Expectation Increase Diminish Totally Seldom Step Since First Step Curb Youthful Enjoyment

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. Harold Brodkey

Life World Contentment Entering Fearlessness Absolute Perfect Never Part Head Velocity Am Motion Sensible Moments Even Aware Alert

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

Contentment Ten More Ten Years Days Learns Years Than Often Agony

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. Hermann Hesse

Happiness Me Feeling Contentment Few Own Nothing Changes Else Harmony My Own Well-Being Around Existence Few Things Things Needed

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. J. G. Ballard

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

Health Joy Contentment Spring Every Source Labour

One of the things that continually surprised people with the kind of shows I do, is that we try and find people who aren't doing jobs that are traditionally aspirational but who have nevertheless prospered and found real contentment doing it. Mike Rowe

People Try Contentment Jobs Kind One Of The Things Find Nevertheless Real Doing Continually Surprised Who Shows Found Things

I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment. Mitski

Happiness Alone Be Happy Happy Contentment Think Definition Rather More Only Maintain Obsessed Towards Ecstasy Than Trying Skewed

The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation. Mother Angelica

Hope Peace Joy Darkness Light Contentment Pain Christian Desolation Possesses Consolation Paradox He Sorrow Exile Experiences Turmoil Fulfillment Lives

I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor. Norman Lloyd

Age College Contentment Year Pleasant Out Kind Able Knew Demeanor Fairly Makes Been Walked Just Wanted NYU Second

Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy! Olivia Wilde

Contentment does not come from achievement. Paul Henderson

Achievement Contentment Come Does

The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet. Thomas Mallon

Old Half Contentment Few Severed Visitor Inside Small Troubled Outside Mosaic New Feet Like Continental Square Stones Just Form Republic Paving Inches Apparent Euro Union European Czech European Union Czech Republic Zone Set

In my own personal life, it's been pretty hard navigating love, and so I've found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up. Trace Lysette

Life Love Myself Waiting World Contentment Own Personal Life Kind Pretty My Own Catch Been Up Personal Loving Hard Found

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression. Max Boot

Writing Contentment Find Self-Expression Craft Fulfillment

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

Sad Contentment Joyful Either Warm Should

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