Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
To be completely woman you need a master and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented and discontented women are not loved for long.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete everybody will respect you.
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
I mean I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.
I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing doing many many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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.
You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful positive life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
Office politics are bloody-minded but weak on content.
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
Religious poetry civic poetry lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.
He will easily be content and at peace whose conscience is pure.
That a man be willing when others are so too as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself.
Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind contentment grace the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
He is richest who is content with the least for content is the wealth of nature.
I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.