Quotes About Contentment

I've put away the clock and now I enjoy the time.

Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.

I don't particularly want to meet anyone. I'm quite happy by myself. Or at least, I was, back home.

When we look forward to heaven, it shouldn't be material items that draw us, but love, joy, peace, and other intangibles. — Patrick Mitchell —

Don't love money; be satisfied with what you have. —Hebrews 13:5

God gets a kick out of you, so relax! — Julie Durham

Before you ask for more, thank God for what you already have. — Katie Robles

all wives loved as she does, fewer men would be looking over the fence.

decide to make the most of what you have, one day at a time.

In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).

Do everything without complaining and arguing. —Philippians 2:14

We are most blessed when we serve Jesus where we are. — Pat Harris, as told to Kitty Chappell —

Some people are always greedy for more, but the godly love to give! —Proverbs 21:26

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

Misery is optional.

Sometimes it would be nice if life just kept happening the way it's happening, if things got to a good place and just stayed there, didn't change.

Then she dropped like a stone and was asleep when her head hit the ground, sound asleep, gone. Brian smiled and squatted by the fire and studied the dog sleeping.

How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?

True affluence is not needing anything.

I'm sixty-eight" he said, "I first bucked hay when I was seventeen. I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life. And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.

White clouds gather and billow. Thin grass does for a mattress, The blue sky makes a good quilt. Happy with a stone underhead Let heaven and earth go about their changes.

En cuanto a nosotros, aficionados a la lectura feliz, no leemos ni releemos más que lo que nos gusta, con un pequeño orgullo de lector mezclado con mucho entusiasmo.

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!

Richard at once declared that we must be content with that and drop the subject. I agreed with Richard. All's well that ends well. What say you, O.G?