Quotes related to Proverbs 15:16
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
- Rob Bell
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.
- Robert Brault
Anne had never seen Mrs. Merrill before and never saw her again, but she always remembered her as a woman who had attained to the ultimate secret of life. You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
- LM Montgomery
A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.
- Alain de Botton
Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.
- Alain de Botton
They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.
- Dolly Parton
You're only poor if you choose to be. Meaning: you can be rich in spirit, you can be rich in thought, you can be rich in talent and you can be rich in all those wonderful things.
- Dolly Parton
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
- John Henry Jowett
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.
- Rick Warren
Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
But godliness with contentment is great gain' (v.6)—there is the glory and excellence of it; as if to suggest that godliness were not gain except contentment be with it.
- Jeremiah Burroughs