Quotes related to Philippians 4:11
I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely
- Henry David Thoreau
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing to definite - only a sense of existence
- Henry David Thoreau
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
- Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'd rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion
- Henry David Thoreau
Joy is in learning to say yes to what is and to surrender into flow with what is, even when it's what you don't want.
- Pete Holmes
There were few people, perhaps, more passionately fond of travelling, and seeing fresh places, and new scenes, than myself; but now, since, by the grace of God, I have seen beauty in the Lord Jesus, I have lost my taste for these things.
- George Muller
The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.
- Rob Bell
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.
- Ruth Gordon