Quotes About Contentment

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

in sum, he had been satisfied reading Homer's Odyssey instead of setting off to create his own?

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

There is no Beatitude for the lonesome. The Book doesn't say they are blessed.

If you have love, you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

The path to wealth is the path of trusting Yahweh, not the path of greed.

More of anything other than God will never fill that longing for fulfillment He has placed within you and me.

With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing.

Thankfulness is the attitude that perfectly displaces my sinful tendency to complain and thereby release joy and blessing into my life.

When your soul is satisfied, you have everything even if you have nothing. And when your soul is not at peace, you have nothing no matter what you have attained or acquired.

One of the consequences of covetousness is that it destroys the capacity to discern sufficiency. It distorts our thinking to the point where: Enough is never enough.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

In our deepest longings we hear echoes of God's longing for us. And the more we can follow these deep-down desires, those that God places within us for our happiness, the more joyful we will find ourselves.

What might our lives feel like if we didn't march through them with a scorecard, keeping a tally of our failures and successes? How would it be to stop pretending omniscience? Can you imagine being able to trust that the outcome of your efforts will be right, whatever the outcome? Even when it looks as though every effort is marked with failure?

The traditional first step is gratitude. You recall the good things that happened to you during the day, and you give thanks for any "benefits," as Ignatius wrote.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

I'm not shooting for happy. I'm aiming for comfortable and fat.

Dad reckons if you have a great time in one place, then that's a good reason for never going back. Nothing will ever measure up to the first time. He laughs at people who go to the same place every year, same beach, same house, same things to do.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

We display the success of what we have done by not having to do anything.