Quotes about Contentment
When your soul is satisfied, you have everything even if you have nothing. And when your soul is not at peace, you have nothing no matter what you have attained or acquired.
— James MacDonald
One of the consequences of covetousness is that it destroys the capacity to discern sufficiency. It distorts our thinking to the point where: Enough is never enough.
— James MacDonald
We display the success of what we have done by not having to do anything.
— James Carse
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
— Dorothy Sayers
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that?—I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.
— Dorothy Sayers
Be satisfied with what you have.
— Aesop
Every man should be content to mind his own business.
— Aesop
Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.
— Aesop
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
— Aesop
I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.
— Joel Osteen
I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
— Anne Reid
Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I'm fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I'm still sane.
— Leonardo DiCaprio