Quotes About Contentment

Worry doesn't change a single thing. Just live.

Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.

One thing I can't do is walk around with a long face anymore—the Lord has taken that away." In

I can't think of anything that means less to me than money; it's too easy to come by.

There is only one thing you need do in order to have the body you desire; you have to find ways to be happy.

There are some people men and women both who will never be happy no matter what the circumstances they find themselves. There's not enough money, no Castle grand enough, no life easy enough to content them.

SECRET #46 Hold on to the good parts for as long as you can.

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.

For me, paradise was the present

They looked for one another when nothing else was happening, the way you pick up a magazine or look in the cupboard for a snack. Not exactly by accident and not exactly on purpose. You could go out in the world and do new things and meet new people, and then you could come home and just sit on the stoop with someone you had never not known, and watch lightning bugs blink on and off.

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

When you let go of trying to get more of what you don't really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have.

When we are focused constantly on the next thing—the next dress, the next car, the next job, the next vacation, the next home improvement—we hardly experience the gifts of that which we have now.

In our relationship with money, more is better distracts us from living more mindfully and richly with what we have.

In the pursuit of more we overlook the fullness and completeness that are already within us waiting to be discovered.

Before we even sit up in bed, before our feet touch the floor, we're already inadequate, already behind, already losing, already lacking something. And by the time we go to bed at night, our minds race with a litany of what we didn't get, or didn't get done, that day. We go to sleep burdened by those thoughts and wake up to that reverie of lack.

I never desired so much land unless we could have lived upon it.

Live from the abundant place that you are loved, and you won't find yourself begging others for scraps of love.

Live from the abundant place that you are loved, and you won't find yourself begging others for scraps of love.

Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or getting wrapped up in the affections of an adulterous relationship are all desperate attempts to silence the cries of a hungry soul.

We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

We all desperately want something that we see the Lord giving to other women. We see Him blessing them in the very areas He's withholding from us. And while these other women may not be obnoxious like Peninnah in their reminders of their blessing and our lack, it's increasingly painful each time we see a reminder. We look at them, and we feel set aside.

Being full of God's love settles, empowers, and brings out the best of who we are. On the other hand, the more full of the flesh we are, the more we grab at anyone and anything to fill that ache for love and acceptance.

comparison steals celebration. And a life void of celebration is a life empty.