Contentment QuotesContentment quotes and sayings about contentment reflect a state of mind that is at peace with ‘what is’. Lau Tzu calls contentment ‘the greatest treasure.’ Cultivating contentment is an art which starts with simple expressions of gratitude and appreciation for your life at this moment. Shift your perspective to ‘wanting what you have’ and feel contentment wash over you. A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. Joseph Addison Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. Buddha Take what you have and make what you want. Hilda Charlton Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness. Alan Cohen Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation. Jonathan Haidt Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. Lao Tzu Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. Merle Shain Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. Socrates It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Haddon Spurgeon Contentment is a state of grace, a state of peace and happiness, appreciation and enjoyment for what is, right now. Desires, in contrast, can never be satisfied. Once we get what we crave, we soon find it less satisfying than we expected, so we strive for something else. The only escape from this perpetual wheel of want is to discover the contentment and perfection we already have. Gillian Stokes Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others. Marianne Williamson Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters. Oprah Winfrey Return from Contentment Quotes and Sayings about Contentment to Quotes Listed by Subject
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