Quotes about Contentment

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

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones. Slow things down. Enjoy the beauty and sacredness of all that is around you.

even if I were to actually lose everything - my house, my finances, my friends, my reputation, my position - it really wouldn't matter in the end, because I would still have God's grace. I would still be the Father's adopted and beloved son. And that would be enough.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

Rather than compete for what was never meant for you . . . you would have the energy to discover what is yours.

Often the greatest poverty comes when we fail to realize what we have, just as the greatest deception comes when we do not know who we are.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.