Quotes About Contentment

Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance. It's the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are.

No infravalores nunca la gran importancia de las cosas pequeñas. No lo olvides nunca»

Compare my life to the lives of other people.

The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.

Mrs Elm studied Nora hard, as if reading a passage in a book she had read before but had just found it contained a new meaning. 'Want,' she told her, in a measured tone, 'is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.

Hayat? anlaman gerekmiyor. Ya?aman yeterli.

In this life, she clearly had no taste. But since when did taste have anything to do with happiness.

Hasta el suicidio le habría parecido una medida demasiado «activa». Quizá en algunas vidas uno simplemente flota sin esperar nada más, sin intentar siquiera cambiar. Quizá así fueran la mayoría de vidas.

Maybe she just had no incentive to swim above the line [...]. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change [...]. A starfish in every life is still a starfish. There isn't a life where a starfish is a professor of aerospace engineering.

When your grateful for things or qualities you possess you're much more likely to create happiness in your life.

I want to die with a smile on my face. Hopefully, it won't be mine.

Peace, peace is what I seek and public calm, Endless extinction of unhappy hates.

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have liv'd light in the spring, To have lov'd, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc'd true friends, and beat down baffling foes; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And while we dream on this Lose our present state, And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose? Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene II

All this and heaven too.

Our creature comforts.

When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent, and only the murmurings of the heart.

God gives us of the good things of this life, not only for necessity, but for delight, that we may not only serve him, but serve him cheerfully.

Those that multiply gods multiply griefs to themselves; for, whoever thinks one God too little, will find two too many, and yet hundreds not enough.

Gracious souls wish to retire from the hurry and bustle of this world, that they may sweetly enjoy God and themselves; and, if there be any true peace on this side heaven, it is they that enjoy it in those retirements. This makes death desirable to a child of God, that it is a final escape from all the storms and tempests of this world to perfect and everlasting rest.

The prosperity of the soul is the best prosperity, and what we should be most solicitous about for ourselves and others.

In divine things we must not covet to know more than God would have us know; and he has allowed us as much as is good for us.

The better we can accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge ourselves with those artificial delights which have been invented to gratify men's pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency. Nature is content with a little and that which is most natural, grace with less, but lust with nothing. Matthew 1:8-15

It is better to live poorly on the fruits of God's goodness, than live plentifully on the products of our own sin.

The blessing of Christ will make a little go a great way.