Allen Ginsberg
Poet, Activist
"we're all golden sunflowers inside."
Contentment quotes
Contentment
352 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have."
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"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."
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"Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk."
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"My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it."
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"He is the richest who is content with the least."
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"If you can find true contentment, it will last forever."
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"Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment."
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"Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment."
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"Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician."
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"For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity."
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"Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are."
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"Contentment is natural wealth."
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"There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy."
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"My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself."
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"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."
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"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks."
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"She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium."
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"The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God."
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"Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress."
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"Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service."
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"Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people."
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"Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need."
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