Whether home be rich or poor, If contentment mark the door He who finds it good to live Has the best that life can give.
It is laughter and contentment and the struggle for a goal; It is everything that's needful in the shaping of a soul.
The Hessians have long distinguished themselves by bravery and military spirit, which leads to hardiness, patience, and contentmentwith little.
Suddenly, without having sought it, the explanation of her recent contentment bubbled to the surface of the girl's consciousness, and she turned and gazed at Harris.
She had made no attempt to analyze the reasons for the new contentment which had transformed her evenings, formerly periods of drab reflections, into the most pleasant portion of each day.
Harris wondered if her new contentment came wholly from the progress the Three Bar was making or was derived partly from the presence of Carlos Deane.
IX There was a new contentment in the eyes of the Three Bar girl as she sat her horse beside Carlos Deane and looked off down the bottoms.
It is doubtful whether Lever would have succeeded in reaching the higher walks of medicine; and it is pretty certain that he would not have found contentment in jogging along the beaten tracks.
He advertised his practice for sale and left Brussels, fervently hoping that he would find contentment in his own country.
The man who lost his cause could eat and drink himself into contentment at the cost of his successful adversary.
Contentment with the things of this world, so long as they go to suit us, with no thought of what shall follow, is the devil's lullaby.
But the beasts are by far the happiest; their lives seem passed in perfect contentment and satisfaction, whereas the poor human animals have a hard struggle for existence in this stony and difficult land of Kerry.
It was a life in which a man's soul would either shrink to nothing or expand until it became too large to find contentment within the horizon of such an existence.
Here was a peace and security, an atmosphere of contentment and comfort, entirely lacking in the surroundings of the house.
One whose soul is for Renunciation based upon contentment is regarded as the refuge of true knowledge.
Contentment does not result from acquisition of desirable objects.
In consequence of contentment (or Renunciation) they have all attained to Infinity as the Vedas declare.
Surcharged with Ignorance, and sunk in the mire of worldly objects, one cannot enjoy the sweets of contentment or tranquillity.
Vrihaspati said, 'Contentment is the highest heaven, contentment is the highest bliss.
By contentment one should dispel greed and stupefaction of judgment, and all worldly concerns should be avoided by a knowledge of the truth.
All the indications of cheerful contentmentthat are his who is slumbering in contentment are seen in the person, that is in Samadhi.
Contentment was theirs, and certainty of knowledge.
Unto the Yogin who has controlled wrath and joy, contentment is his high praise and success.
Living in such freedom from affections, everlasting contentment will be mine.
Then that house was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible.
The delighted community rose as one man and applauded; and when the twins were asked to stand for seats in the forthcoming aldermanic board, and consented, the public contentment was rounded and complete.
But afterwardes finding my selfe in such an accumulation of glorie, pleasant seate, happie Country, great contentment and tryumphant company, such as Clodius the Player in Tragedies neuer had seene.
So assurance and contentment even yet beamed in his eye.
It is the last resting-place of the Rosebrook family, which their negroes, partaking of that contentment so characteristic of the family, have planted with flowers they nurture with tenderest care.
If all the world were his, he could be no other than he is, no whit gladder of himself, no whit higher in his carriage, because he knows contentment lies not in the things he hath, but in the mind that values them.
He is his own taskmaster for devotion; and if Christianity have any work more difficult or perilous than other, that he enjoins himself, and resolves contentment even in miscarriage.
His success doth not give him so much contentment as provocation; neither can he be at rest so long as he hath one, either to overlook, or to match, or to emulate him.
To Quarren the work was fascinating and, except for his increasing worry over Strelsa Leeds, would have been all-absorbing to the degree of happiness--or that interested contentment which passes for it on earth.
Therefore I conclude that the tie must be purely intellectual; that mind calls to mind and finds contentment in the far response.
Deep in his heart lies the unconsciouscontentment of certainty.
I desire nothing so much as to see peace and contentmentrestored to this house, and I only wish that I possessed a thousandfold more power to accomplish it than I do.
The village carpenter was invariably a middle-aged or an old man, secretly despised by his apprentice, if he had one, for his contentment with his lot.
The virtues of Arrowsmith, which were in their way quietly heroic, impressed me a good deal; but his abject contentmentwith the limitations of his lot appalled me.
Brandon was deep in the contentment of a great wish fulfilled.
The peculiarity of this wedding, distinguishing it from others where love is, was the measureless contentment of the future step-children.
He leaned his chin on his hand, and, with a dull contentment looked at these thin, crisp papers.
Miss Christie saw great diversities in his children, but in regard to them all he showed an aggravating degree of contentment with what Providence had sent him.
They are rationalists, holding that contentment and peace of mind should be the only objects of life.
I ascribe my constant good health and contentment to my unvarying routine of work and diet and exercise.
Then where do my constant good health and contentment come from?
Contentment does not depend upon what we have, but what we need, and I have that, for my wants are few.
Never did mortal die a happier death, never did a more beautiful smile of contentment rest upon the face of a corpse.
The pussy-cat purred its contentment when its little mistress sat on a stump near by to cuddle it in her lap, but suddenly Topsy flipped up an ear and sat erect, as though she had just thought of something.
Once alone in the passage, the sense of high elation and contentment that had just possessed me began gradually to decrease.
Several passages struck me as being remarkable for their originality and depth of thought; but what particularly impressed me as I read on, was the tone of absolute joy and contentment that seemed to light up every page.
He knew quite well that every letter which left the institution was opened and censored, but, with certain plans lying fallow in his brain, he had a method back of the exaggerated contentment he pictured.
To have gone on forever in a state of drowsycontentment .
And he began to question, too, either the beauty or contentment of the heaven which offered the vacuous delights of idleness.
