Quotes About Contentment

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

Sometimes you are in just the right place.

how can I say how grateful I am for what I've been able to do and be. How can I ever express my gratitude enough?

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

When at last I left him I ran all the way home. I laughed, I talked to myself, I wanted to shout and sing, and I found it very difficult not to tell my parents how happy I was, that my whole life had changed, and that I was no longer a beggar but as rich as Croesus.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

Generally and understandably we think that if our ministries increase, Jesus' ministry will increase as well. John the Baptist knows better. He apparently believes that it is possible to be so consumed with Christ's increase that one can actually be content to be less significant oneself. This is the mystery of authentic ministry. Who of us can say we have attained this poised self-diminution? It is a goal greatly to be desired.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

Oh, I will go back to Century House and start again. And go back each night to my small flat and listen to my music and eat my baked beans. And you will go back to Nikki, my friend, and hold her very tight, and write your books and forget all this.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.

He is rich who owes nothing.

it's easy for you to be so sweet.' 'Why? Because I have a well-paid job and a roof over my head and I pay my credit cards off in full each month?

Most people are satisfied too soon, and that is the reason why there is so little wisdom in the world.

solo la non conoscenza del futuro ci rende sopportabile il presente. Mi sono sempre stupito e continuo a stupirmi immensamente che gli uomini siano tanto smaniosi di conoscere il futuro. Sembra quasi che preferiscano l'infelicità alla felicità.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness.