Quotes About Contentment

Then Lucia said, "So what do we do now?" "Nothing," Otto said. "Things will go on as just they always have.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

Sometimes in winter there comes a spell of snowstorms and sunshine and terrific contentment. On snowy afternoons there is a special blessedness in saying, oh it is too snowy to chop wood this afternoon. And the gray snow sifts down, and one takes off one's boots and sits by the fire and is glad of the way wool socks smell; and a pie is baking in the oven, and the gray snow is sifting down.

It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong tell Mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alone in the place where I make no mistakes in the place where I have what it takes

He will be your Shaddai—your strength and satisfaction.

I suppose this is your way of telling me that you are outrageously happy?' Quill nodded. 'Of course.' 'Living with you is an act of interpretation, do you know that?' 'Living with you is...bliss. Did you know that?

I will find a man who adores me, or I'll buy a house next to a bookstore and live happily by myself," she concluded, shaking out her skirts.

Better a happy spinster than an unhappy duchess.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Un sangue-misto di rado si trova contento in compagnia: c'è sempre qualcosa che gli fa ombra , ma in realtà è lui che si fa ombra da se stesso, come il ladro e il tesoro, che si fanno ombra uno con l'altro

In this way they bear up under the unfruitfulness of their own country. Since accepting Christianity, however… they have already learnt… to be content with, their poverty…

After a while, the only presents I wanted were records and books.

I'm not sure that it's safe to be happy. You see, I thought for years that I was happy and then it all vanished. So now I think I'd rather take happiness in small doses, seize them when they come and not try to hang on to them. I'm contented. . . . Contented is safer than happy; there's not as far to fall.

Ser simple agota.

Qué raros son los recuerdos que nos hacen disfrutar de una felicidad de la que no nos dimos cuenta y con la que nos fuimos felices.

No se puede vivir del aire, ni entregarse a una espiritualidad que no permita el retorno a los placeres prosaicos

No use wishing now for any other sin.

C.S. Lewis knew this. He believed that we were too easily satisfied with the "lesser joys" of life instead of pressing on to pure, full joy in Christ. He wrote, "We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition [and food] when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased"7 Solomon

have only one audience. Before you I have nothing to prove, nothing to gain, nothing to lose."3 Living for an audience of one would simplify your life tremendously, wouldn't it? When God is your sole focus, decisions become so much easier. Your heart will know the peace and contentment that comes from seeking to please and glorify God alone. Your life will be richer because your pursuits will have eternal goals in mind, not earthly.

Because we were made for him, any place where he isn't will never satisfy us. In

Acquiring everything one needs or wants does not really evoke true happiness to him or her. Yes! you heard me right, it is looking beyond one's lacks, deficiencies, needs or wants that evokes true happiness. As a matter of fact, you can be rich or wealthy and yet unhappy simultaneously. ~Emeasoba George

Avarice is reprehensible acquisitiveness, excessive and insatiable desire to acquire or possess more wealth, riches or material gain than one needs or deserves. In other words, avarice is the highest level of greed or greediness. Now listen up, wealth or success is good and worthwhile too. But, you should not quest for it desperately, fraudulently or dubiously. Besides that, genuine wealth or success is meant to be acquired or achieved overtime and not at all overnight. -Emeasoba George

Be grateful to God (Almighty) for everything you have presently, no matter how small or unpleasant it seems to you. For, someone right here or out there is longing to possess everything that you have presently. In fact, your dislikes are someone else's likes. -Emeasoba George

Be grateful to God (Almighty) for what you have achieved already, while you pursue all that you still want to achieve. -Emeasoba George