Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

It is our responsibility to make adjustments so we can live within God's provision and be joyfully content whether He provides a little or a lot in any given season.

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.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

A person can live a day without silver or gold, but coffee? No thanks.

What you have in your Shepherd is greater than what you don't have in life.

Content. That's the word. A state of heart in which you would be at peace if God gave you nothing more than he already has.

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.

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

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.