Quotes about Contentment
Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.
— Ruth Gordon
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
— CS Lewis
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
— Oscar Wilde
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.
— Bill Johnson
Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
— Publilius Syrus
Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too—maybe even yours.
— Joyce Meyer
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
— CS Lewis