Quotes About Contentment

Tell me this. Are you all that happy? Be honest now." ..."I think... there's something wrong with your question, you know? I spend a lot of time happy; I spend a lot of time unhappy; I spend a lot of time just bored. Maybe if I worked real hard at it, I could avoid some of the happiness, but I doubt it. The other two I know I'm stuck with...

Appreciation is not a warm feeling, Rydra realized, but cool, and makes your back relax at the same time that you smile.

The great principal of being happy in this world is not to mind or be affected with small things

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun

Never less alone than when alone.

I am most gladly content that Christ breaketh all my idols in pieces: it hath put a new edge upon my blunted love to Christ. I see He is jealous of my love, and will have all to Himself.

There is none like Him; I would not exchange one smile of His lovely face with kingdoms.

Be content, ye are His wheat growing in our Lord's field. And if wheat, ye must go under our Lord's threshing instrument, in His barn-floor, and through His sieve, and through His mill to be bruised, as the Prince of your salvation, Jesus, was (Isa. 53:10), that ye may be found good bread in your Lord's house.

Wants are my best riches, for I have these supplied by Christ.

Happy are they who are found wanting.

We love to carry heaven to heaven with us, and would have two summers in one year, and no less than two heavens; but this will not be for us: one, and such an one, may suffice us well enough. The Man Christ got but one only, and shall we have two?

You know what they say: It's better to have dyspareuned than never to have pareuned at all.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Blest hour! it was a luxury to be!

the solace of minutia

I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.

She could hide in this small, dull life.

To remain happy always have a goal that you

His TED talk on the subject, "What Makes a Good Life?" has been viewed more than 29 million times.

Beauty is not to ask for, but to overask for.

Most men the good they have despise, And blessings which they have not prize: In winter, wish for summer?s glow, In summer, long for winter?s snow.

To remain ever equanimous and cheerful is the greatest devotion to God.

Nada te turbe, nada te espante. Tudo passa; Deus não muda. A paciência tudo alcança. Quem a Deus tem, nada lhe falta. Só Deus basta.