Quotes About Contentment

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint

If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.

Once you enjoy playing the game too much, you stop looking at the score..!!

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Recently I keep thinking that this isn't about the survival of a species. It's about why we're never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.

Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they neither toil nor spin yet I tell you even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how.

We may not have had the same experiences as other parents, but I'm okay with that now.

Patience is the key of content.

Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

Patience is the key to content.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Patience is the key to joy.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Patience is the mother of joy.

There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.