Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.

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.

A lonely impulse of delight

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

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

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

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.

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