Quotes About Contentment

Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content;The quiet mind is richer than a crown.

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

There was a time I didn't know your name Why should I worry, cry in vain but now she's gone, and I don't worry cause I'm sittin' on top of the world.

You won't know true happiness ... till you give up your heart's desire.

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

Who covets more, is evermore a slave.

Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.

Are the choices you are making going to really make you happy NOW or happy eventually?

Some people CHASE happiness. And some people CHOOSE happiness...

Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted.

Whoever said happiness needs a plan?

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. D. H. Lawrence1

Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.

True happiness is valuable because, for example, it is a sign of authenticity, and it is a way of knowing you are on purpose.

Friendliness took the place of charity, contentment the place of hope, and knowledge the place of faith.

A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied.

They live in Tranquillity which is not disturb'd by the Inequality of Condition.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

If we sincerely before the Lord plan out our day along the lines suggested and carry it out to the best of our ability, we can and must leave it there. We should refuse to get into the bondage about what has not been done. —J. Oswald Sanders

Little is much when God is in it! Labor not for wealth or fame. There's a crown – and you can win it, if you go in Jesus' name.

A grateful mind is a great mind,'' and the Bible agrees. There are 138 passages of Scripture on the subject of thanksgiving, and some of them are powerfully worded. Colossians 3:17 says: ''And whatever you do in word or deed, do