Quotes About Contentment

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.

Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?

Here's what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Joy is the best makeup.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want.

Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better