And even though all this knowledge about our animate orb did not alleviate my unwholesomeness, still this particular type of wisdom gave me a relief, a soothing of contentment I did not even know existed.
Certainly for many of them, a kind of bittersweet, semi-reliable contentment doesn't feel out of reach.
It is an inner state of contentment you cultivate by doing the small ordinary things that bring you joy.
Goldsmith replied that smugness to him implied a sense of superiority, whereas contentment didn't imply any judgment of one's self, only joy in life.
In acts of personal kindness, the only real reward is the sense of deep contentment that comes from doing what we know is right!
Everyone I approach happily talks at length, usually with a breezy kind of contentment, yet you do not have to look too hard to find concerns.
While appearing a taciturn character on occasion on lesser British racedays, the contentment of a job well done at the top level would appear to be one of his motivating factors.
The arc of the plot traces a romance from the meeting of the two principals, Harold and Edith, on a park bench, to their dissolution as a couple, and the play itself is an intense lament about the age-old mystery of why passion and contentment don't naturally coexist.
The plot traces the romance of Harold and Edith from their meeting on a park bench to their dissolution as a couple, and the play itself is an intense lament on the age-old mystery of why passion and contentment don't amiably coexist.
Misery is a stronger emotion than happiness, and catastrophes punctured their minds and reshaped their sense of their lives in a way that ordinary contentment did not.
Contentment doesn't have to mean complacency.
