Quotes About Contentment

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.

One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

He has enough who is contented with little.

There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.

More than enough is too much.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.