Quotes About Contentment

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Life doesn't give you what you want; it gives you a version of what you can have.

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

Gladness is welling up with in me now – I am healed, I am satisfied, I am full, I am living in the total provision of Christ.

It wasn't enough. Not anymore. There had to be more to life than being put in the job that was most satisfying for you, living in the home that made you most comfortable, visiting the friends with whom you never fell out because it was impossible to disagree with them, marrying the partner who was totally compatible with you in every way, being happy in everything because happiness was compulsory. …

are they, will they be, have they ever been truly happy?

Anna radiated nothing more than happiness, and the guileless mystery of being what she was, which is something few of us can manage.

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My philosophy is this: Do not live for the day – that would be materialistic – but treasure the day. Most of us live on the skin, on the surface, without realising how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

One day at a time- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

Saying of the Prophet Desire Desire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay. Proverb

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

If it is dark enough, one candle is plenty.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities. Proverb

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Dicho del Profeta Deseo No desees el mundo y Dios te amará. No desees lo que otros posees, y ellos te amarán.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower'.