166 Feeling Content Quotes

Following is our list of feeling content quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about feeling content with life.

Famous Feeling Content Quotes

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. — Plautus

He who is contented is rich. — Lao Tzu

Contentment is natural wealth. — Socrates

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. — Joseph Addison

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

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

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment. — Unknown

To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come. — Tony Gaskins

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

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong. — Bill Bailey

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

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown. — Graham Greene

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. — David O. Mckay

Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Short Feeling Content Quotes

• My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. — Charles Lamb
• Contentment is the only real wealth. — Alfred Nobel
• Being comfortable is not the same as being content. — Michael Easter
• Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. — Epictetus
• If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now. — Willie Nelson
• A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. — Akhenaton
• Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact. — T. D. Jakes
• A contented mind is the best source for trouble. — Plautus

Feeling Happy And Content Quotes

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. — Buddha

How to Pick a Career Quotes: Chasing happiness is an amateur move. Feeling contentment in those times when your choices and your circumstances have combined to pull it off, and knowing you have all that you could ever ask for, is for the wise. — Tim Urban

Chasing happiness is an amateur move. Feeling contentment in those times when your choices and your circumstances have combined to pull it off, and knowing you have all that you could ever ask for, is for the wise. — Tim Urban

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good. — Nicholas Winton

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content. Paulo Coelho Quotes From Like the Flowing River “Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person. — Paulo Coelho

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present. — Noah Levine

Reduce your wants and lead a happy and contented life. Never hurt the feelings of others and be kind to all. Think of God as soon as you get up and when you go to bed. — Dharma Mittra

We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us. — Jean Liedloff

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Feeling Content With Life Quotes

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself. — Jane Seymour

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. — Dalai Lama

I'm seldom restricted by anything because I don't know how to restrict myself. It's a blessing and a curse. I feel a lot of support from people in Iceland, especially from people that are content with themselves and their life. — Olof Arnalds

What is important, what isn't important, and how do you clean yourself from all of the unimportant things. And then you can be content, and feel good with life, which is metaphorically speaking, "walking on water." — Eytan Fox

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make. — Joyce Meyer

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer. — Haruki Murakami

I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content. — Veronica Roth

And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that — Emily Giffin

Being Content Quotes

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you. — Lao Tzu

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed. — Dalai Lama

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have. — Yasmin Mogahed

Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't. — Fanny Crosby

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. — Bernard Meltzer

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. — B. F. Skinner

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. — Alan Cohen

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge. — David Brainerd

God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry? — Saint Francis de Sales

Happy And Content Quotes

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. — Norman Vincent Peale

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. — Chanakya

Creating content to make people smile and laugh, that's what makes me happy. — Logan Paul

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Peace is happiness at rest and what you want most of the time, but you can also convert peace to happiness any time. — Naval Ravikant

The fundamental delusion — there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever. — Naval Ravikant

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it. — Boethius

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. — A.E. Housman

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. — Jerome K. Jerome

Happy And Contented Quotes

This fetishization of wanting more, are empty promises of happiness and fulfillment that never seem to come to fruition. — Paul Jarvis

Success is liking yourself and what you do because if you like yourself, you are happy with who you are and how you live and what you do. — Ryan Higa

I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it. — Oswald J. Smith

I just want to be happy. You know what I’m saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy. — Puff Daddy

Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility. — Abdu'l-Bahá

I am happy, and I am living the life I always dreamed of. — Kylian Mbappe

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Keep da money, cars, fame, and jewelry, and jus give me all the happiness – I’ll be good forever. — 21 Savage

Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel. — John Dalton

I don’t think we set and achieve goals in an effort to become happy. We do it because we are happy and want to expand our happiness. — Dan Sullivan

Feeling Satisfied Quotes

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow. — Alan Turing

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood. — Rick Rubin

Eating a nutrient-dense diet can help you feel full and satisfied, while also supporting your overall health. — Steven Gundry

When a habit is easy, you are more likely to be successful. When you are successful, you are more likely to feel satisfied. — James Clear

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied. — Jeff Buckley

Though the intensity may differ from person to person, you can be sure that everyone you meet is driven by two primal urges: the need to feel safe and secure, and the need to feel in control. If you satisfy those drives, you’re in the door. — Chris Voss

Our expectation that others will buy into our fake image is never satisfied – and we feel unhappy. — Mo Gawdat

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. — Sigmund Freud

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. — John Piper

I Am Content Quotes

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me. — Isaac Newton

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. — Albert Einstein

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with — Plato

I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content. — Ryan Seacrest

After all the stuff that I've been through, I'm trying to rebuild my brand and be true to who I am, and be authentic, and make the truest, realest content that I can. — Logan Paul

I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker. — Mark Twain

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. — Thomas Huxley

I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films. — Maya Deren

If I am happy in my personal life, I will be happy in my profession. — Antoine Griezmann

If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael

Being Satisfied Quotes

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people. — Smith Wigglesworth

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. — Wayne Dyer

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research. — Jean Piaget

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it. — Samuel Adams

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. — John Muir

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best — Henry Ford

We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even — Thomas Sankara

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way. — Pema Chodron

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes. — Russell Westbrook

Love Contentment Quotes

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — C. S. Lewis

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know. — Jim Harrison

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment. — Elisabeth Elliot

...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley. — Julius Evola

The early days, when Vine was so special and innovative - I would wake up and immediately want to make videos. I loved it. — Jake Paul

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! — Robert Burns

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path. — Baha'u'llah

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds — Michael Dorris

What I love about YouTube is that you don't need brands to pay you, because you get paid off the views. When I put effort into YouTube, I directly see money back. — Jake Paul

Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment. — Jack London

Happiness And Contentment Quotes

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. — John Balguy

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. — James E. Faust

Being happy and fulfilled is probably one of the most attractive traits you can offer a partner. — Amir Levine

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. — Lillie Langtry

Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance. — Oral Roberts

I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I'm a very happy and contented guy. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart. — Kirby Puckett

I am happy at Tottenham. I go into work every day with a smile on my face, and that is important. — Harry Kane

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is. — Daniel Boone

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence. — Lin Yutang

There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn't that what we're all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the "now"? — Jon Krakauer

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More Feeling Content Quotes

You should make content that makes people feel good about themselves. — MrBeast

For me, feeling at home is far more intoxicating than being in luxurious environments. — Tom Bilyeu

Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself. — Fernando Pessoa

When we are in flow, we feel utterly content, completely in control of the world, and are perfectly aligned inside and out: our thoughts and actions are one and the same. — Rangan Chatterjee

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be. — Oprah Winfrey

Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love. — Neil Patrick Harris

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought. — Mortimer Adler

My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want. — Booker Little

Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content. — Masaru Ibuka

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence. — A. H. Almaas

The essence of information...is not its content but its resonance. This is why feeling or sensing things is so important. To sense the resonance of incoming information co-creates a resonant field. — Jose Arguelles

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this? — Marcus Aurelius

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. — George Edward Woodberry

When what you do matches your purpose, your life just feels in rhythm. — Gary Keller

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. — Kahlil Gibran

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. — Sydney J. Harris

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. — Ambrose Bierce

The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field. — Will Eisner

I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.' — Robert Smith

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that. — R. Kelly

Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling. — Pierce Brosnan

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself — James Nayler

I would say there is a conversation happening between your body and mind all the time. Even when you're sleeping, your body is communicating the information to your mind. And so to me it feels like, why not harness that? If it's happening all the time, why not control the content of the conversation? — Amy Cuddy

If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief. — Richard Posner

The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory — Robert Southey

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. — Winston Churchill

Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher. — Eckhart Tolle

Jabs are the lightweight pieces of content that benefit your customers by making them laugh, snicker, ponder, play a game, feel appreciated, or escape; right hooks are calls to action that benefit your businesses. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. — John Keble

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. — Jack Dee

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