Quotes About Contentment

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.

Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

When we have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we must have trust in him. We must trust him enough that we are content to accept his will, knowing that he knows what is best for us.

Blessings upon your mind and heart. Let openness, trust and love be your first response. This is the secret to everlasting joy, peace and contentment.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that

Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.

It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.

I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

If you're missing joy and peace, you're not trusting God.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.