Quotes About Contentment

We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy or we cannot be content.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy. from Beastly

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us, but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trup.

You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.

It is more important to use your gifts well than to settle for being content.

I'm going to share something I learned since I been here and that is us as people when we have difficulty on our journey of life we tend to focus on what we need at the moment that we forget what we already have…

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a Lamborghini. If you aren't happy with that I don't know what else.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

Their whole difficult lives seemed not to weigh on them at all. Taken as mornings and meals, suppers and evenings, all of the world could be carried, both the sad and the delicious, their lives seemed to say.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

There are no more worlds to conquer!

True love is an intense desire for the presence of its object. God is only ours in reality when we are conscious of His nearness, and that is strange love of Him which is content to pass days without ever setting Him before itself.

He that loves and trusts God possesses God. He that possesses God has enough for earth. He that possesses God has enough for heaven.

Worthiness or unworthiness is to be swept clean out of the field, and I am to be content to be a pauper, to owe everything to what I have done nothing to procure, and to cast myself on the sole, all-sufficient mercy of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Give me again my hollow tree,A crust of bread, and liberty.

I've often wish'd that I had clear,For life, six hundred pounds a year;A handsome house to lodge a friend,A river at my garden's end,A terrace walk, and half a roodOf land set out to plant a wood.

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.