Quotes About Contentment

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

If of thy mortal goods thoU art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?

Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.

I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well.

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.