But sorrow and its implications cannot be banished entirely from this chronicle of their contentment.
I don't think contentment is much of a virtue - it's more of a guise for mediocrity.
How many students have graduated? A higher graduation rate demonstrates higher levels of student contentment and success.
They sold a few foals each year, and the horses were their reason for joy in the morning and contentment at day's end.
What is contentment?
Gratitude is one of the best ways to find contentment.
Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happiness and contentment.
What is it that you could change to take you to another level of contentment in life?
They yawned a lot, but not from boredom: more of a cowlike contentment, a sense of peaceful invulnerability which we residents could not quite share.
He found contentment in reading novels.
His contentment would be short-lived. France was bankrupt, and its monarchy an affront to the Enlightenment.
On almost every run, and certainly the long ones, there are periods of contentment or reflection when one is on automatic pilot and the terrain goes past unnoticed.
She was swollen with contentment.
You trust that the peeling of your fluff will reveal - slowly, one layer at a time - contentment.
His only hope is his beloved sister Veronica, a garden-designer, who lives with a needy lover, Kitty, in a “mood of robust contentment” at Les Glaniques, a fine Cévennes farmhouse.
Mutu's decision, doubtless, also had much to do with his personal contentment at Fiorentina.
Does it mean true contentment?
Sadly, any honeymoon neurochemistry will wear off within two years. This is why the move from infatuation to long-term contentment is problematic.
The database makes it clear that there is not a strong connection between material wealth and general contentment.
But the researchers found a stronger correlation between level of desirability and contentment with themselves and their social lives for urbanites than those living in the country.
That contentment exists in Italian hearts, sanity in Italian heads … not so much.
I went to bed that night feeling contentment.
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