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.'
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
I like to feel and understand people's contentment with what I've done.
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
