822 Quotes About Contentment

I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

A lonely impulse of delight

We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work.