Quotes About Contentment

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't you ecstatic?

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

From Morning to Night keep Jesus in thy Heart, long for Nothing, desire Nothing, hope for Nothing, but to have all this within Thee changed into the Spirit and Temper of the Holy Jesus. Let this be thy Christianity, thy Church, and thy Religion.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing from God.

How to Live Well on Nothing a Year.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

He tidies away abandoned things, like scraps of quarrel, or pieces of spite. He banishes small troubles, makes ghosts happy, soothes tired curtains, charms kettles into singing, and stops milk sulking.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

Companionate love is the calmer state that comes after, filled more with quiet satisfaction, friendship, and a gentler happiness

If you have realistically low expectations, you'll end up pleased in most circumstances.

BE AT REST ONCE MORE, O MY SOUL. PSALM 116:7

People remember what they can live with more often than how they lived.

Loneliness is the price you pay for keeping things uncomplicated

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

You are that which you seek, but you have left your own deepness and are looking elsewhere. The stress of not finding it creates its own need to be released. And so the cycle continues. You are chasing your own tail, and much of the time that tail looks suspiciously like a woman.

She thought a smile that eventually touched her lips.

Would you be able to recognize 'better' when you're in the mindset that life in its present form is somehow not good enough?

the first proof of a stable mind is its ability to stay in one place and enjoy its own company