There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
— Sivananda
Blissful Discontentment quotations
A grateful person is rich in contentment.
An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment.
This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.
I've always been dissatisfied, I know that.
But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.
Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.
Ambition is torment enough for an enemy;
for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die
Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
We can start by living by the Spirit while we stop following the heart of discontentment and doubt.
Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony.
It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.
I will be able to love above all discontentment.
To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.
A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit.
I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.
Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.