Quotes About Contentment

That the covetous wants that which he has, as   well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is   the slave of his own wealth.

But if Abram bore his continual wanderings patiently, our   fastidiousness is utterly inexcusable, when we murmur against God, if   he does not grant us a quiet nest.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.

The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.

The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.

For, as I always like to say: 'It is not possessing something that is harmful, but being attached to it.

If you have something to eat and notice your thought wanting to eat alone on account of desire and not of need, in this respect you do not regard him as yourself. Even if you only have enough for whatever you need, if you do not give him some of this, in this respect you do not regard him as yourself.

Untroubling and untroubled where I lie—The grass below—above the vaulted sky.

O take me from the busy crowd, I cannot bear the noise! For Nature's voice is never loud; I seek for quiet joys. The book I love is everywhere, And not in idle words; The book I love is known to all, And better lore affords.

I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.

Could we make it our own, there would be an eternally inexhaustible earth and a forever lasting peace.

I feel that I only began to live a year ago, for then I feared I was to die, but I think it is beyond that. I am no longer content merely to be alive—no, not when there is living to be had.

Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it took you so long to realize what you'd been missing.

There was a lot to be said for a man's capacity to be comfortable while alone.

To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)

And I knew, too, that to live a life like Walter Cole's—a life almost mundane in the pleasure it derived from small happinesses and the beauty of the familiar, but uncommon in the value it attached to them—was something to be envied.

Life was simpler, too, if one did not think too hard. -The Burning Soul

It is by a process of simplification carried constantly further and further that happiness is won.

There are only two mortal sins in the world; one of these is to be cruel and the other is to possess , and they are both destructive of happiness.

Instead of pausing in our multifarious activities, instead of putting aside our laborious quests, we are being perpetually fooled into thinking that happiness is to be reached in the same way as pleasure is, by the possession of something.

Nothing is against nature!" he retorted. "That's the mistake people make; and it causes endless unhappiness.

He looked up into Daily Alice's placid and certain face, wondering why every deepening of these daily mysteries left him less inclined to probe them. "The things that make us happy," he said, "make us wise.

One of the virtues of drink was how it reduced life to these simple matters, which engaged all the attention; seeing, walking, raising a bottle accurately to the hole in your face. As though you were two years old again. No thoughts but simple ones. And