Quotes About Contentment

Refusing to rate what we perceive helps us to cultivate feelings of acceptance rather than judgement, as we stop demanding that life be other than it is.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

I took new pleasure in the thought that in a piece of wild pasture land like this one may get closest to Nature, and subsist upon what she gives of her own free will. There have been no drudging, heavy-shod ploughmen to overturn the soil, and vex it into yielding artificial crops. Here one has to take just what Nature is pleased to give, whether one is a yellow-bird or a human being.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

I like my life alone.

When you are grateful, you are at peace.

Elizabeth Brown prefered a book to going on a date. While friends went out and danced 'till dawn, she stayed up, reading late.

because she is already a doer who, I am certain, is fully capable of making all her dreams come true." Well, maybe not all> my dreams, I thought, smiling to Ian, who was smiling back. But most. Which was fine, since I'd learned that getting most of what you wish for in life is often as good as getting it all.

But for now there was this, and it was enough, it was more than they could have hoped for: the two of them in their stone corner, their dark clothes bleeding into the dusk, lights being kindled across the city, and a few pale stars in the sky.

Live somewhere slow. Zen blogger Leo Babauta moved to Hawaii to get away from the distraction that is city life. Novelist Pico Iyer moved from Manhattan to rural Japan, 'in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event...Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place'.

WHEN SOME BASIC NEED IS LACKING—time, energy, money—consider yourself blessed. Your very lack is an opportunity to latch onto Me in unashamed dependence. When you begin a day with inadequate resources, you must concentrate your efforts on the present moment. This is where you are meant to live—in the present;

The world's way of pursuing riches is grasping and hoarding. You attain My riches by letting go and giving.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. . . . And be thankful. —COLOSSIANS 3:15

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. PHILIPPIANS 4 : 12

When you focus on what you don't have or on situations that displease you, your mind also becomes darkened.

Practice My Presence by practicing the discipline of thankfulness. PSALM 100:4; PSALM 31:14;

GIVE UP THE ILLUSION that you deserve a problem-free life.

Yet Joy is still attainable. Search for it as for hidden treasure.

hope in a variety of things—wealth, power, health, medical treatments

And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 4:19

Fill your mind with thankful thoughts till your heart overflows with Joy.

I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. PHILIPPIANS 4 : 4,12

DAME LAS GRACIAS por las condiciones que se requieren para que estés calmado.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." —MATTHEW 6:34