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source: Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

topic: Motivational, Waiting, Listening, Interrupting, Sweat The Small Stuff

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Moving, Mean, Appreciate, Attics, Being Content

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: House, Sitting, Window, Being Content

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Practice, Contentment, Violin, Being Content

Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.

- Robert M. Pirsig

topic: Spiritual, Sight, People, Being Content

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

- Luiz Bolognesi

topic: Art, Expression, Defense, Art Expression, Superego

we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.

- Jane Frances de Chantal

topic: God, Enjoy Life, Ease, Being Content

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

- Paul the Apostle

topic: Giving, Secret, Want, Give Me Strength, Contentedness

... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the Lord and deny the Creator. An attitude of this kind is entirely wrong for Christians who believe that even? sparrows? are under the care of the holy angels (cf. Mt. 10:29). The demons, however? suggest worries of this kind? The divine word can bear no fruit, being choked out by our cares. Let us, then, renounce these cares, and throw them down before the Lord, being content with what we have at the moment?

- Evagrius Ponticus

topic: Christian, Attitude, Believe, Being Content

The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.

- Ibn Ata Allah

topic: Self, Perfection, Events, Soundness, Being Content

This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

- Jerry Bridges

source: Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.98, NavPress

topic: Secret, Favors, Spirit, Being Content

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

- Cynthia Hand

topic: Thinking, Accepting, Being Content

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

topic: Finding Happiness, Getting What You Want, World, Being Content

All of us are responsible to provide for ourselves and our families in both temporal and spiritual ways. To provide providently, we must practice the principles of provident living: joyfully living within our means, being content with what we have, avoiding excessive debt, and diligently saving and preparing for rainy-day emergencies. When we live providently, we can provide for ourselves and our families and also follow the Savior's example to serve and bless others.

- Robert D. Hales

topic: Spiritual, Mean, Rainy Day, Being Content

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

- Billy Graham

source: Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Beautiful, Simple, Secret, Being Content, Simple And Beautiful

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