Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until yo….
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with….
Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all..
The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and conten….
Contentment: The smother of invention..
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment..
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short..
If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must make the choice to dwell on the pos….
I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment..
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily..
Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don't nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becom….
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of ment….
They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, ….
But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest..
A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative….
When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become ….
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself..
Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything..
Total contentment is only for cows..
Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment..
Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service..