Contentment

The sound of the water as it splashed against the dock. Motor boats humming as they idled up the cove. My wakeboard cut through the glassy water like butter. A slight tingle on my nose and cheeks from the sun. Contentment for me is time spent with family at Smith Mountain Lake. Time at the lake has always been special to me. I feel at peace there because of the simplicity, experience with nature, and the love of my family. Awakening to the smell of sizzling bacon as I stretched out across my…

It is what people seek, but cannot be reached by treasure of gold or silver; because it is more expensive. Happiness is like a pearl in the deep sea, needs a proficient diver who knows how to discover and bring it. Happiness is satisfaction, contentment and fulfillment. Happiness is not measured by what we have, it’s intangible. Having money, car or luxurious lifestyle assumed us that one’s who have these types of life will be happy, but as we often heard, “Money can’t buy happiness.” God's…

heavily related to societal conventions. The societal system used in the book is a society containing many troubling aspects in our society and making them the crux of the society allowing the problems to become more emulated. The idea of does contentment equal happiness is emulated by the Director at the beginning of the novel Representation of this idea is given in the quote ""And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've…

unjustness from the news, they fail to take a stand and help those who struggle. By pushing aside self-interests and exerting efforts into helping others, one will utilize his highest function of being and, as a result, will reside in a state of contentment. Aristotle states that the prime…

The principal of happiness is the idea of contentment and positive emotion. The Fu-Jen Catholic University defines happiness as “the inner well-being and contentment, as well as the feeling of harmony with the external world. It is also trust, safety and stability” (Lu 103). The Chinese generally feel contentment when they are successful in intellectual pursuits. “Nonetheless, there is no denying that schools of great philosophy…

I have always had female physicians and I have been satisfied with the care provided by them throughout the years. Since I began my undergraduate career at Bates College, I have heard many students complain about the lack of quality care at our health center. Combining my past experiences with my and other students’ experiences at the Bates College health center, got me wondering about the intersectionality of gender and the medical field. That is why I want to investigate are there differences…

especially if that something worth dying for is God. Knowing that one would die for something gives a man strength, courage, and honor in his heart. This truly takes the place of leisure, amusements, and good work. It also puts into man’s heart contentment that will not let him complain about his carnal senses since complaining about carnal pleasure would degrade his courage and honor. In conclusion, leisure, pleasure, and quality work do not satisfy the heart of a man but instead bring…

purchasers. Further, regression study on low cost airline statistics shows that the rapidity and accuracy of facility, worker attitudes, and cost significantly pressure customer contentment. While in full facility airline physical proof, the attitude of workers, and the cost are significant forecasters of customer contentment. This learning underlines that the facility quality especially the service workers attitudes and cost are factors that must be given more concentration for developing buyer…

Contentment is a state of being happy and satisfied. As for Cheryl Strayed, she had lost sight of true happiness in her life. Strayed had become distant with her ownself in regards to feelings and the feelings of those around her. She had distanced her family and close friends by the cause of her mother's death. Strayed explained what she had been going through and a part of her plan for the future, “It was a world I’d never been to and yet had known was there all along, one I’d staggered to in…

Can one truly know happiness if one has not seen misery? It is not possible for us to understand the full scope of our contentment, the privileges present within our lives, if we have no melancholy or sorrow to compare it to. Our perceptions of a range, a scale of joy can never be developed or measured, if there is no variance within our lives. If all the colours within our palate are colourful we would never be able to understand its contrast to dullness, never be able to understand the value…