Quotes of: Being-content Keyword

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

Anonymous

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Alexander Pope

To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.

Love

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

Vir Das

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

Vernon Howard

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

Winston Graham

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

will.i.am

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

Glen Campbell

Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences, because he reads into it an ssertion that he, the...

Cryptonomicon

As we're told that 10 percent of all high school education will be computer-based by 2014 and rise to 50 percent by 2019, and as the PowerPoint throws up aphoristic bromides by the corporate heroes of the digitally driven 'global economy' -- the impl...

Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher

It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very impo...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Perhaps it's human nature: We want to shield our children from pain, and what we get instead is life and heartache and lessons that bring us to our knees. Sooner or later we are handed the brute, necessary curriculum of surrender, we have no choice, ...

Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment

We create the world around us based on our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and emotions. Evil, dark forces, dark energy etc. are forms of the “negative” and are all a projections of the self. There is no separation. Once one realizes this, these ener...

Gary Hopkins

The wonderment found in the act of obedience is in the transformation power it holds. We become new creations the minute we are born again, through our spiritual rebirth. However, sanctification takes a lifetime. Believers must continually strive to ...

Cheryl Zelenka

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.

Penelope Cruz

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Jenny Holzer

Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.

Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

Look into the stillness

Anger can be managed to become emotional content that raises power.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut