Quotes About Contentment

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

I think I already understand about life: pretty good, some problems.

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

The greatest fear in my life was getting happy. I'm not so afraid of that anymore.

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

We just want to live a lovely life.

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

If you let pride stop you, you will hate life

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

This joy you feel is life.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

If you pick something you actually enjoy doing, you have fun every day of your life.

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?