Quotes About Contentment

will tell you, for I am not sure if you properly understand as yet how much we owe to the Lord for bringing us to a place where we are so free from business matters, occasions of sin and the society of worldly people.

A day in heaven,' Adam whispered. What would that be like? To wake up one morning and be normal ? To not bite down and parcel out each second of each day. To not wrestle and negotiate with your obsessions. To not have thoughts that ran you into the ground. To have a quit mind. A quiet mind. Quiet.

Some people aspire to achieve, others are content with just existing. Question is - are you a sheep or a herder?

Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.

The goal of life: simple but not empty.

...and torture myself with happy thoughts...

I want to giggle myself to sleep each night and jump on the fluffy, comforting pillows of faith.

The best part of happiness is the pines.

What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy. I want to be happy. And useful, loved, loving, healthy, wise, free, strong.

Life is amazingly good when it's simple and amazingly simple when it's good.

The best kind of alarm clock is the purring kind.

Fearing to lose what you have is not the same as appreciation. You have to take a step beyond that.

The blanket of life is kind and warm for those who can find its snuggle.

Can plants be happy? If they get what they need, they thrive — that's what I know.

Gratitude means you stop focusing on what you don't have and start focusing on what you do have.

As Joyce Meyer candidly puts it, "Complain and Remain.

If today was the last day of my life, would I be happy with what I'm about to do?"[8]

Os Hillman, in his book The Purposes of Money2, writes about four potholes on the road to prosperity: 1. Greed (1 Timothy 3:3) 2. Covetousness (Exodus 20:17; 1 Timothy 3:3) 3. Stinginess (Luke 6:29) 4. Self-reliance (Galatians 2:20)

Thanksgiving helps us focus on the answer rather than the problem.

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

We were always together. And we were happy. Looking at clouds. Rocking on the swings. Lying in the sun. We loved being busy doing nothing.

Think about it: Why should we care whether what makes us happy is just an electrical impulse in our brain or something funny that we see some fool do on TV? Does it matter what makes you smile? Wouldn't you rather be happy for no reason than unhappy for good reasons?