The three indispensables of genius are understanding, feeling, and perseverance. The three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, And exercising the memory.
The three indispensables of genius are understanding, feeling, and perseverance. The three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, And exercising the memory.
Probably there is nothing in the world so suggestive of serene contentment and perfect bliss as the spectacle of a calf chewing a dishrag, but the nearest approach to it is your reedy tenor, standing apart, in sickly attitude, with head thrown back a.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
Nine keys to contentment Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbors. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Wisdom is the science of happiness or of the means of attaining the lasting contentment which consists in the continual achievement of a greater perfection or at least in variations of the same degree of perfection.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
There was once a man, Harry, called the Steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this to find contentment in himself and his own life.
Let contentment be your father the Guru is the Primal Being, beyond birth or incarnation.
If you look back from where we came from and the ordeal we came through, this is a blessing. The atmosphere that exists helps you to have some peace and contentment with yourself, especially as you reflect.
The purpose of the book isn't necessarily, 'We're all miserable and here's how to be happier,' ... There are many people who are feeling very happy. But it's addressed to people from the standpoint of whatever level of life satisfaction and contentment you're experiencing, it's always possible through your own efforts to increase that level and improve upon it.
As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path. . . we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
But now no face divine contentment wears,
'Tis all blank sadness, or continual tears.
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories