The phrase "lasting contentment" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of happiness or satisfaction that endures over a period of time. Example: Despite the challenges and struggles, their marriage had brought them lasting contentment.
But it's not like the Cure to settle into lasting contentment, and the rest of "4:13 Dream" is filled with upheavals.
If you drained Dolly Parton of her swift wit and Loretta Lynn of her winning pluck, you'd get Tammy Wynette, a fairly plain, small-minded gal whose searing ambition and begrudging temperament kept her from any lasting contentment.
Lasting contentment, however, comes from one place: within.
The result: a brain that is tilted against lasting contentment and fulfillment.
She is also the author of "INVITING A MONKEY TO TEA: Befriending Your Mind and Discovering Lasting Contentment" (Hohm Press, 2012) and "GETTING OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY: Unlocking Your True Performance Potential" (Luminous Press, 2001).
My contentment lasted for a few months until I met a beautiful woman that changed everything.
There is no longer lasting satisfaction in the superficial contentment of the ego's confines.
They may be on the top of the heap in strictly material terms, but they have a far better chance of finding a love that lasts, experiencing joy and contentment in their lives, living at peace with themselves, and sleeping soundly at night.
She is interested in sustainable marriages, feasible relationships, functional contentment: whatever will last a lifetime.
"If" lasts for a few days, perhaps a few weeks, until that sense of contentment, that happiness, wears off.
The whole of Federer's match lasted only 13 minutes longer than Nadal's first set against the Frenchman, a gruelling encounter that doubtless did wonders for the world No1's wellbeing and general feeling of relaxed contentment.
