Quotes of: Being-content Keyword

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

Christopher Knight

The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

Agnes and the Hitman

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The Advancement Of Learning

I'd rather have weeks, days, hours with you happy and content than a lifetime filled with regret.

Hold Me Tight

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

The Interpretation of Dreams

No, of course not. I just feel content,” she said carefully. “That’s an old person’s word,” said Ethan.

The Interestings

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

The Inn at the Edge of the World

Was I happy? Maybe more content than bouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?

I Heart New York

My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving.

A Royal Reborn

There were a thousand ways to imagine someone unhappy and so few ways to imagine someone contented.

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

The Sagan Diary

I was just thinking how the purr of a contented cat is one of my favorite sounds in the world. There's something so comforting about it, isn't there?

Shadowplay

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Meditations

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.

Lead Me Home

No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.

Lost in Time

I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

The Midwife's Apprentice

We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment.

Marriage: Dead or Alive

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

The Shadow of the Sun

One unforeseen advantage of having a  child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.

Petite Anglaise

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

The Portable Dorothy Parker