Quotes About Contentment

People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do they'll stay quiet.

In my experience a boy will change his goal from unobtainable to obtainable once he realizes which is which. By that logic you should settle for me. Doesn't work for girls. We want what we can't have.

For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together.

She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy.Yes, that sounded good.

I won't go looking for trouble. I usually don't have too.

Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.

My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

This is the trouble with all happiness -all of it is built on top of something men want.

It was useless to whine and moan about what you could've had- what you deserved, what was fair. I was just happy to have this moment.

Maybe I should have resented him, but I didn't. After losing my mother, I didn't have patience for grudges. My years on the street had taught me that it was pointless to whine and moan about what you could've had - what you deserved, what was fair. I was just happy to have this moment.

To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself–avoid trying to be something you're not.

The Fountain of Joy still reminds locals that life in Siena is good.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!

If you don't know how to be happy with what you have, you will never be happy with more.

Your value is not determined by your valuables

The most common myth about money is that having more will make me more secure. It won't. Wealth can be lost instantly through a variety of uncontrollable factors. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you — your relationship with God.

Nunca sabrás que Dios es todo lo que necesitas hasta que él sea todo lo que tengas.

Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?" David modeled this kind of gratitude when he prayed, "Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?"15 Years later, his son would write, "It is better to be satisfied with what you have than to be always wanting something else.

A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. PROVERBS 11:28

A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. PROVERBS 11:28 (MSG)

POINT TO PONDER: Blessed are the balanced.

We accept our humanity intellectually, but not emotionally. When faced with our own limitations, we react with irritation, anger, and resentment. We want to be taller (or shorter), smarter, stronger, more talented, more beautiful, and wealthier. We want to have it all and do it all, and we become upset when it doesn't happen. Then when we notice that God gave others characteristics we don't have, we respond with envy, jealousy, and self-pity.

the two biggest hindrances to living the life God designed you to live: Wanting to be like others (envy), and wanting to be liked by others (people-pleasing.) These traps are subtle, but they distract and detour millions of people from the purposes they were created to fulfill.