Quotes About Contentment

Few of us will ever be famous, I can tell you none of us will be rich. But we will have more important riches –the joy of making the beautiful music.

Life is easier without imperatives.

Knowing the truth brings happiness.

The first is about spiritual living. I think it's plain. Ordinary people do it, and they don't even know they are doing it. In the middle of plain lives, with regular joys and griefs, they live with grace and kindness and are happy.

I'd say, "But I'm not happy." And she'd say, "Where is it written that you're supposed to be happy all the time?

It is the only happiness now possible to me, to know that all is well with you

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Watching these happy beings for whom weeping was impossible, he had become incapable of grief; watching their inconsistencies, he had become incapable of knowing right from wrong; disregarded by them he had become incapable of disappointment.

They had an assured income, nothing could disturb their calm.

It was as easy for him to quit Bloomsbury for the Chilterns as for a cat to jump from a hard chair to a soft. Now after a little scrabbling and exploration he was curled up in the green lap and purring over the landscape.

But the overruling disconcertingness was to find himself unconcerned. It was as if some mysterious oil had been introduced into the workings of his mind. If a thought irked him, he thought of something else. If a project miscarried, a flooding serenity swept him beyond it. He lived a tranquil truant, dissociated from himself as though by a slight agreeable fever.

When a dog has slept in the same corner for so many years no one is likely to enquire into its pedigree.

At these times she was subject to a peculiar kind of day-dreaming, so vivid as to be almost a hallucination: that she was in the country, at dusk, and alone, and strangely at peace. She did not recall the places which she had visited in holiday-time, these reproached her like opportunities neglected. But while her body sat before the first fires and was cosy with Henry and Caroline, her mind walked by lonely seaboards, in marshes and fens, or came at nightfall to the edge of a wood.

Sitting here, and thus, she had attained to a state which she could never have desired, not even conceived. And being so unforeseen, so alien to her character and upbringing, her felicity had an absolute perfection; no comparison between the desired and the actual could tear holes in it, no ambition whisper, But this is not quite what you wanted, is it?

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

the secret to happiness is counting your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

just realize that no amount of money can ever make you good enough. Money can't make you something you already are.

Terminate tormentOf love unsatisfiedThe greater tormentOf love satisfied.

Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth.

The fact that you yearn for more doesn't mean you're ungrateful for what you have or that you're greedy. It means you have a higher calling. The yearning inside calls you.

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

sometimes wondered if it would be better to let go of the pain of wanting and settle for the calm mediocrity of the status quo.

Many people live in the waiting room, not because of God's unwillingness to promote, but because of their unwillingness to be faithful in their current life situation.