Quotes About Contentment

Envy has empty hands and wants them full. Jealousy has full hands and never wants them empty. Envy languishes in self-pity because it doesn't have what others have. Jealousy rants in paranoia because it fears losing what it feels unworthy to own.

you should always be doing something that satisfies you, what makes you feel good inside.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

The saying that money doesn't buy you happiness is true. But it sure as fuck helps.

Go after happiness like it is the only thing you can take with you when you die.

companies and leaned back smiling. He had the fort

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things propertly, there's nothing much to regret.

His mind, never content with shallow satisfactions, crept to the brink of knowing. What kind of power was it if it would never be used?

We shall live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest, and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Shalom is a comprehensive expression of God's will for us in every situation we face.

First comes peace. Then joy. Then love. And finally understanding.

I want that person you knew to return. But the truth is, this may be the best we achieve. Today, having her here and comfortable and not agitated…that may be as good as we get. Are you okay with that?

And then a wave of peace washed over her and told her it wasn't where she lived that mattered, but that she was walking with Him.

Old age teaches you in a very unkind way that things won't necessarily get better. Not in this life. In fact, you can pretty much count on things degenerating. Being content is not a lack of ambition. It's being able to rest and relax and know that your worth doesn't come from what others think of you or even what you think of you.

there is no gift to the world like a man doing what he enjoys.

Being content is not a lack of ambition. It's being able to rest and relax and know your worth doesn't come from what others think of you or even what you think of you.

You had to see what you had instead of what you didn't have. Start from where you are, not from where you want to be.

until you are at home in yourself, familiar with the knowledge of the gold of who you are, where you come from, where you've been, and who you were meant to be, you'll be basically "homeless." In other words, until you can come to value all experience, and find some happyness in everything you've lived and will live, you will be without your ultimate riches.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.

I couldn't care less what anyone thinks about me. When I look in the mirror and see what's looking back at me, I'm incredibly happy. Nobody's opinion is going to change that.

I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.

I don't spend a lot of time in the mirror.

I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.