Quotes About Contentment

Health is happiness.

Self-acceptance is how to find peace with one's soul.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

We all deserve to experience genuine happiness and can easily do so.

We are brainwashed into thinking that money is the source of happiness while what we really need to know is that inner peace is something that comes from within.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,Brown paper packages tied up with strings—These are a few of my favorite things.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

Man is almost mad—mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop....

I am wearied to death with life. There's nothing it has that I want, but I celebrate my naked earth, there's no other world to descant.

The happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them.

I envy most my cat. Of all my friends she is the wisest. She is sixty miles away from where I sit here writing. Yet I know well how it is with her. That little half-hour of sun has found her stretched out upon a wicker-work seat under the old vine that is southward of my house. Her fur was warm in it and keeps yet the warmth. She is content.

Though it tarries, wait for it." The proof that we have the vision is that we are reaching out for more than we have already grasped. It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually.

Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don't take root anywhere.

Ask God for what you want and do not be concerned about asking for the wrong thing, because as you draw ever closer to Him, you will cease asking for things altogether.

Are you severely troubled right now? Are you afraid and confused by the waves and the turbulence God sovereignly allows to enter your life? Have you left no stone of your faith unturned, yet still not found any well of peace, joy, or comfort? Does your life seem completely barren to you? Then look up and receive the quiet contentment of the Lord Jesus.

The more you fulfill yourself the less you will seek God.

Dejection stems from one of two sources—I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means "I must have it at once.

It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference?Be sensible! What can you do about it?

But if the world only toss you a cake, only keep you well fed and well fattened, what a good and a fair world it is, how full of all sweetness and light, how true in its vision, how pure in its excellence;