Quotes About Contentment

I didn't really mind. I loved this drive, this moment.

Being happy is more important than anything else.

Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.

Trotzdem war es hier gemütlich; es doch nach warmen, gehaltvollen Wörtern und Tiefen Gedanken

For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.

Also because I'm always saying he could quit his job if he wanted and we'll go somewhere cheap and live on rice and beans with our kid. My husband doesn't believe me about that last bit. And why should he? Once I spent $13 on a piece of cheese.

If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

Sometimes she just stands and looks out the window where the people whose lives are intact enough not to have to take yoga live.

found a book called Thriving Not Surviving in a box on the street. I stood there, flipping through it, unwilling to commit.

Quiet in the cup. Hard to believe that isn't joy, the way it flies away when I fling it out the window.

All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

I savoured the moment because the moment was more than enough

For a man who could have anything he wanted... why do I have the sense that you rarely get what you want?

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, freely submitting to, and taking delight in God's wise, and fatherly disposal in every condition.

It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

Suppose for example, that he lacks outward comforts, good cheer and feasting, a good conscience in a continual feast; so he can make up the lack of a feast by the peace that he has in his own conscience. If he lacks melody in the world, he has a bird within him that sings the most melodious songs in the world, and the most delightful. And then does he lack honor? He has his own conscience witnessing for him, that is as a thousand witnesses.

It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.

Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.

contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit-the whole soul, judgment, thoughts, will, affections and all are satisfied and quiet.