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Being Content Quotes (page 3)

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Thomas Jefferson
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the..."
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. Eleanor Roosevelt
It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years. Toni Morrison
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers Horace
Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. Isabelle Eberhardt
A. Whitney Brown quote: "I'd be content if my children grew up to be people who think..."
I'd be content if my children grew up to be people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. A. Whitney Brown
The gift that isn't big enough to make a mark, but is too big to leave the possessor in peace. And so they can't be content to be Sunday painters, or poets who write for a few friends, or composers whose handful of delicate little settings of Emily Dickinson can't find a singer. It's a special sort of hell. Robertson Davies
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once. If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence. Arnold Bennett
Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content. Anne Sullivan Macy
One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer; For all such vain wishes in him were prevented. By a fortunate habit of being contented. Jane Taylor
Zhuangzi quote: "To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge."
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge. Zhuangzi
Epictetus quote: "If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought..."
If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Epictetus
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content. Marcus Tullius Cicero
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with... Ivan Goncharov
. For if you know whatyou want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you donot know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal withyou. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. Alan Watts

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