Quotes About Contentment

In 1900 the average person living in the United States wanted seventy-two different things and considered eighteen of them essential. Today the average person wants five hundred things and considers one hundred of them essential.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

gratitude keeps us focused on the present. The Bible's most

isn't it true? What you don't have is much less than what you do. from A Love Worth Giving

You'll never know that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.

Seek first God's kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well. So don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own" (Matthew 6:33–34).

Embrace your poverty. We're all equally broke and blessed. "People come into this world with nothing, and when they die they leave with nothing" (Eccles. 5:15 NCV).

Jesus was happy and wants us to be the same.

He motions for you to lean forward. "I have a secret to tell you," he whispers, "the secret of satisfaction. 'The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want'" (Ps. 23: 1 NKJV). David has found the pasture where discontent goes to die. It's as if he is saying, "What I have in God is greater than what I don't have in life.

Don't worry about skills you don't have. Don't covet strengths others do have. Just extract your uniqueness.

And if you don't succeed at home, do you succeed at all?

Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty." John 6:35

Anchor your heart to the character of God. Your boat will rock. Moods will come and go. Situations will fluctuate. But will you be left adrift on the Atlantic of despair? No, for you have found a contentment that endures the storm.

Nada acalla a los gruñones como la gratitud.

So you've made your Christmas list? Checked it twice? Before we get too carried away dreaming about the CD or Xbox game we've just got to have, let's be thankful for the One gift we already have—the best gift of all.

Thankful people focus less on the pillows they lack and more on the privileges they have.

La vida es un opio del que no se cansa uno nunca.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced. It cannot be made contingent upon solving some external problem. When one problem is solved, another appears to take its place. Life is a series of problems. If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy - period! Not happy because of.

So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.

I have longed for one person with whom everything could be shared, but I am slowly making my peace with the knowledge that this will never happen.

Today I feel centered and time is a friend instead of the old enemy.