822 Quotes About Contentment

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.

That very breath wherewith they utter their complaints is a blessing and a fundamental one too for if God would withdraw that they were incapable of whatsoever else either have or desire.

Life’s contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.

It's better to seek contentment than excitement. The excitement is fleeting while the contentment is lasting. Introduce a bit of boredom to both scenarios to prove it.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.