Quotes About Contentment

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

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

We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.

When you stop hoping you start settling.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong.

If you have hope for the future you have true riches; no matter how much you have in your account

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.