Quotes About Contentment

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

the man who sat naked in his tub said to Alexander the Great, who ruled the whole world: 'I am a greater lord than you are, for I have spurned more than you have seized. What you think it is a great thing to possess, is too trivial for me to scorn.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'Thank you,' it will be enough.

God never gives, nor did He ever give a gift, merely that man might have it and be content with it. No, all gifts which He ever gave in heaven or on earth, He gave with one sole purpose - to make one single gift: Himself. With all His gifts He desires only to prepare us for the one gift, which is Himself.

our Lord said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.

If the only prayer you say in your entire life is 'thank you,' that will be enough. ~ Meister Eckhart

And so I tell you that we should learn to see God in all gifts and works, neither resting content with anything nor becoming attached to anything. For us there can be no attachment to a particular manner of behaviour in this life, nor has this ever been right, however successful we may have been.

Furthermore, we should keep all things only as if they had been merely lent and not given to us, without any sense of possessiveness, whether it be our body or soul, our senses, faculties, worldly goods or honour, friends, relations, house or home or anything whatsoever.

They who can go without all things, not needing them, are far more blessed than they who possess them in their need. That person is the best who can do without what they do not need.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Dac? singura rug?ciune pe care ai spune-o ar fi Mul?umesc, ar fi de ajuns.

They for whom God is not enough are greedy. The reward for all your works should be that they are known to God and that you seek God in them. Let this always be enough for you.

desi ii placea trecutul, intunericul pe care-l ascunde inauntrul sau, linistea pe care ti-o da prin faptul ca nu te invata nimic, faptul ca-l pierzi, deplinatatea lui satula, care nu mai cere nimic, viitorul ii placuse intotdeauna mai mult. In el vedea un om in papauci, care merge pe apa fara sa lase nicio urma. [...]

Slowness seems to be a key element in living a rich life. I don't mean rich in the sense of money. I mean rich in the ability to feel things as they're happening, to not constantly be thinking of the next thing.

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

And I don't know why, but I sit on that step until the last person's gone home and I'm still grinning. Like someone who has a bit of a crush.

Dispersarnos?- dijo Tate-. ¿Por qué? Quedémonos aquí, ¿por qué ir a cualquier otro sitio?. - Porque no sabremos nunca lo fantástico que es este lugar hasta que nos marchemos - dijo Narnie.

He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.

Klju? za sre?u nije u onim stvarima za koje si prije mislio da su bitne, nego u pronalasku osobe koja ti "pristaje".

Give your full heart to whatever you do. It will ensure that you are always rich in happiness. If you have that, then you will always be exactly where you are supposed to be in life.

I shake my head, thinking of times past, before everything had happened. I wish I could take back all of the times I complained about being too hot, or too cold, or being bored, or too busy. I wish I could have all those times back, and just be happy to be in the moment. All of my little complaints seem so silly, so trite, especially now.