Quotes About Contentment

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Do you know how much you're missing in the moment by always wishing you were somewhere else?

Replacing the girl reading the book on the porch was this beautiful, closed-off, honest, waiting-to-be-cracked open woman who challenged his contentment simply by living her life. He didn't want to be challenged. He was just fine with the status quo. Why did she have to go around inspiring him? It was not what he'd signed up for.

Happiness isn't that hard to find, you know. It's everywhere. It's all around us. But it's not something that happens to us. It's something we seek. It's something we pursue.

To search her eyes for happiness and contentment—two things I want for her more than anything else.

I'm saying if you do what you were made to do, then you'll find the peace you've been looking for. You can't work for it, you know. You just have to rest in it. - Birdie

For her part, she knew she was plain. She didn't make herself up or pay a whole lot of attention to how she looked. It didn't seem worth her time.After all, she had no real interest in dating.

The trouble with success is that it's never enough. You always want more.

I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now.

This morning I breathe iced air, and wander toward the waves. For a moment I live without care; a moment all my heart craves.

Ask yourself this question: at the end of your life, is it really going to matter how many Likes you got?

Someone said it's not wrong to have things. It's wrong when your things have you.

Godliness with contentment is rare.

We compare our behind-the-scenes with other people's highlight reels.

Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have

My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.

Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best.

Suffocate the flames of envy with a blanket of gratitude.

Por qué es que los que tienen tan poquito a menudo parecen tener tanto? ¿Y por qué es que los que tienen tanto parecen tener tan poquito de lo que en realidad importa?

Never before have so many people had so much and felt so dissatisfied. No wonder we often feel so dissatisfied. No matter how much we have, it can't compare to what others appear to have.

Put him first. Seek him with all of your heart, and he will add everything that matters. Be still and know that he is God.

Having more of this world never fulfills. Only more of Christ does.

Earth is not heaven. It was never meant to be. No new car, new house, new living room furniture, new kitchen appliances, new clothes, new hair, new baby, new vacation, new job, new income, new husband, or new anything will ever satisfy us, because we were not made for the things of this world.

Normally, we're never satisfied.