Quotes About Contentment

In that still and settled place There's nobody but you You're where I breathe my oxygen You're where I see my view And when the world feels full of noise My heart knows what to do It finds that still and settled place And dances there with you

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

A reasonable amount o' fleas is good fer a dog-keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.

As Princeton Newport Partners closed I reflected on the proposition that what matters in life is how you spend your time. When J. Paul Getty was the richest man in the world and manifestly not fulfilled, he said the happiest time of his life was when he was sixteen, riding waves off the beach in Malibu, California.

Heller said he had something the rich man could never have. When a puzzled Vonnegut asked what that could be, Heller answered, "The knowledge that I've got enough.

Freud said that once we have the basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter, and health, then what we seek is wealth, power, honor, and the love of men and women. For financial titans who aggressively continue to seek tens of millions, hundreds of millions, and sometimes billions, you can ask, "Is the winner really the one who dies with the most toys?" How much is enough? When will you be done? Often the answer is "Never.

Augustus wasn't driving the wagon very fast because he had his family together again and all time was now spread out before him over the valley and the mountains forever and ever.

And he glanced down at Mercy beside him, and saw in her face such radiant goodness, such a calm certainty, that it seemed to him that if he could only be with her all his life, he should know a love, and happiness, and peace that he had never known before.

Mind you, I don't know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth." - Some Hope

[A]nd now I might As happy be as earth is beautiful...

To stay on the path means to love God more than the world. To do this you have to let go of power, control, and self-will. A tall order as most pursue happiness on Earth, not freedom in God. Those who have this freedom want for nothing, are content, and live a blessed life.

If God isn't enough for you, you will strive for the things of the world, and suffer. You will search for but never find the satisfaction that can only be found in God. Here is the lesson of lessons... to always put God first.

Here is the pinnacle of happiness! Blessedness. A state of being where God is living 'His' life through you. Those who have risen to this level of virtue desire nothing from the world because they already have everything in God.

With God, anything is bearable. Without God we are cast adrift, cut off from real life. This is why those who have God need very little in the way of things. They're already content. Already far along the path to freedom.

Tired of holding on yet? Stop striving and put God before the world. You'll have everything you want, minus the heartache. Don't fight the world. Don't try and overcome it. Forgive it.

To trust God means to depend upon God This is the reason children are content. They know, deep down, they are taken care of. To lose this feeling is the great tragedy of life. To find it again, the greatest recovery.

When God is enough for you, the doors of heaven open wide.

When God is enough for you what the world has given you will be as well.

Who are the happiest people? Those who hear the word of God and obey. They are happy to bend the knee, happy to turn it over to God because they know, it's that, or carry the weight of the world.

They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog — keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Man wants but little, nor that little long.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.