Quotes About Contentment

The world cannot satisfy the heart, because the heart is too large for the object.

He prayed for all things that he might enjoy life; He was given life that he might enjoy all things.

Behind tranquillity lies conquered unhappiness.

You can't let the uncertainty of tomorrow interfere with the joy of today,

Personally, I wouldn't mind Alzheimer's. You buy one magazine, and you're entertained for the rest of your life.

Happiness isn't about what you do, Jack. It's about how you feel about what you do.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world— one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

Worst of all, there are hundreds of young unestablished believers who are so infected with the same love of excitement, that they actually think it a duty to be always seeking it. Insensibly almost to themselves, they take up a kind of hysterical, sensational, sentimental Christianity, until they are never content with the "old paths," and, like the Athenians, are always running after something new.

Pride makes us rest content with ourselves—think we are good enough as we are—keep us from taking advice—refuse the gospel of Christ—turn every one to his own way. But pride never reigns anywhere so powerfully as in the heart of a young man.

Pride cast Adam out of paradise. He was not content with the place God assigned him. He tried to raise himself, and fell. Thus sin, sorrow and death entered into this world by pride.

The only way to be really happy, in such a world as this is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

As a general rule, in the long run of life, it will be found true that sanctified people are the happiest people on earth. They have solid comforts that the world can neither give nor take away.

Depend on it; there is no surer road to unhappiness than always having our own way. To have our wills checked and denied is a blessed thing for us; it makes us value enjoyments when they come. To be indulged perpetually is the way to be made selfish, and selfish people and spoiled children are seldom happy.

Content with their hardly-won triumphs, that worthy body of men seemed to rest upon their oars. In the plenary enjoyment of their rights of conscience, they forgot the great vital principles of their forefathers, and their own duties and responsibilities.

As a general rule, in the long run of life, it will be found true that sanctified people are the happiest people on earth

Real success is not visible. It has nothing to do with the size of your house, your batting average, or your bank account, or in our case, the number of medals you've managed to get. Those things are OK, granted. But success is how you feel every day. It's being satisfied with the day's work you've produced. It's feeling at ease with yourself when you go home at night.

It would be like someone . . . looking over to Clee Hills, reflects that Housman had stood in that place, regretting his land of lost content. And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment gone and we not there.

But one thing is sure -I had a feeling of immense content and, if I thought at all, it was that I'd like this to go on, no-one going, no-one coming, autumn and winter always loitering around the corner, summer's ripeness lasting for ever, nothing disturbing the even tenor of my way (as I think someone may have said before me).

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

For one beautiful moment—and who could ask anything more of life?—I needed and wanted for nothing.

I will not worry about something that will not happen.