822 Quotes About Contentment

Dissatisfaction: the feeling that something is missing when nothing is missing.

I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.

It's okay to feel satisfied-it's not a crime.

Wisdom and contentment are the same thing.

Besides, beyond question, it takes a certain degree of brainlessness to remain permanently contented with oneself and with everything.

Sometimes just breathing is enough.

One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to share her happiness with another soul.

She pats my knee. I’m going to tell you something my grandmother told me when I was fifteen years old. `Eliza, you won’t ever be content with someone if you can’t learn how to be content by yourself first.

It was not desirable for the proles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.