We never regret having eaten too little.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

You were not contented while you had her, and to weep for her now is childish.

Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.

You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.

Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.

A humble saint is content with that condition which God sees is best for him. A proud man complains that he has no more; a humble man wonders that he has so much: "I am not worthy of the least of all your mercies!" (Gen. 32:10).

The main proposition I insist on is this: that a gracious spirit is a contented spirit. The doctrine of contentment is very important; for until we have learned this, we have not learned to be Christians.

God's providence, which is nothing but the fulfillment of His decree, should be a guarantee and an opposing force against discontent. In His wisdom, God has set us in our current station.

To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity.

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you conentrate on what you don't have, you'll never, ever have enough!