Quotes About Contentment

What an idle time! What an insubstantial, happy, foolish time!

Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough." "Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.

If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.

What an idle time! What an insubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospect I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly.

We were very happy; and that evening, as the last of its race, and destined evermore to close that volume of my life, will never pass out of my memory.

What is the point of having all that money if you are never going to enjoy it?

If I could have known Cicero, and been his friend, and talked with him in his retirement at Tusculum (beau-ti-ful Tusculum l), I could have died contented.

Worldly goods are divided unequally, and man must not repine.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

The things we think we want are often substitutes for what we really want, and the pleasures we seek are less than the joy that they distract us from.

God knows what you need. He knows what is best for you—including in what quantity. The fact is, we can live with very little, but we can never truly live without God. He is what we need first, foremost, and always. He is the only one whom we truly can't do without! The

El deseo del Señor es que usted sienta todo el tiempo una paz perdurable, una paz que incluye gozo y sentimientos de propósito en cada área de su vida… con tiempos de preocupación o frustración, como los ratos que ocasionalmente nos golpean en momentos de crisis. Simple

It is quite impossible to be where the Father wants you—doing your best and giving thanks from a grateful heart—and still be bored. So when you're disheartened, remember reaching God's potential for you is more about who you are than what you're doing—it's more about glorifying Him than past mistakes or pressures.

A Safe House SCRIPTURE READING: PHILIPPIANS 4:4–7 KEY VERSE: PSALM 31:3

Rejoice always. . . . In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:16, 18

The only One who can protect you from worry and fill your mind with peace is God, who provides for all your needs.

Friend, don't look at your circumstances or try to cut corners. Do your best wherever God has placed you and trust Him to lift you up (1 Peter 5:5–6). Wherever you are, work with excellence, and trust He will lead you on the path of blessing.

fact, you cannot keep it hidden very long. This is because attitudes like bitterness and jealousy are written in the eyes. If we look closely, we can see joy and happiness on the face of a person who is truly content. Likewise, there usually will be a sense of tenseness or a distance within the eyes of those who allow these feelings to gather within their lives. Anger and bitterness are written on a person's countenance. How

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

It is always the secure who are humble.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Marcie: How can you pig-out on all that junk food every day, sir? Peppermint Patty: Life is more than carrot sticks, Marcie.