Quotes About Contentment

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They're unique. They know they were built for the water.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.

There is no stress. I live my life, I enjoy it and when I am comfortable I can get married.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.

Of all the things that matter, that really and truly matter, working more efficiently and getting more done, is not one of them.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.