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Contentment

Contentment definition 1. a feeling of happiness about life’s circumstances

Contentment TIME, April 2009 “Money does not buy happiness… Once you reach the median level of income, roughly $50,000 a year, wealth and contentment go their separate ways, and studies find that a millionaire is no more likely to be happy than someone earning one-twentieth as much.”

Contentment John D. Rockefeller “I have made many millions, but they have brought me no happiness”

Contentment W.H. Vanderbilt “The care of $200 million is enough to kill anyone. There is no pleasure in it”

Contentment Henry Ford “I was happier when doing a mechanic's job”

Contentment Proverbs 27:20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

Contentment Ecclesiastes 2:10-11,17 All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor. Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done…

Contentment Ecclesiastes 2:10-11,17 …and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun… So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Contentment definition 2. an attitude of grateful acceptance of one’s life

Contentment Philippians 4:11-13 Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity…

Contentment Philippians 4:11-13 …in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

To Grow Contentment… Fear the Lord Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the Lord leads to life So that one may sleep satisfied, untouched by evil.

To Grow Contentment… Fear the Lord Believe in the Lord Obey the Lord

To Grow Contentment… Fear the Lord Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness Than great income with injustice.

To Grow Contentment… Give thanks Proverbs 5:18-19 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth. As a loving hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be exhilarated always with her love.

To Grow Contentment… Give thanks Proverbs 30:8–9 Give me neither poverty nor riches, Feed me with the food that is my portion, that I not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or that I not be in want and steal, and profane the name of my God.

To Grow Contentment… Give thanks Socrates "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

To Grow Contentment… Work hard Proverbs 20:13 Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.

To Grow Contentment… Work hard Proverbs 6:10–11 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

To Grow Contentment… Give to those in need Proverbs 19:17 One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the Lord, And He will repay him for his good deed.

To Grow Contentment… Give to those in need Proverbs 22:9 He who is generous will be blessed, For he gives some of his food to the poor.

To Grow Contentment… Give to those in need Proverbs 21:13 He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be answered.

To Grow Contentment… Fear the Lord Give thanks Work hard Give to those in need

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