Quotes about Contentment
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
— JRR Tolkien
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
— Epicurus
Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.
— Charles Spurgeon
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
— Diane von Furstenberg
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.
— Henri Nouwen
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
— Ann Voskamp
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
— GK Chesterton
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.
— Rick Warren
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
— Charles Dickens
Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.
— Brother Yun
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
— Florence Nightingale