Quotes about Contentment
I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso
The most valuable things in your life are always the things that money cannot buy.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)
- DH Lawrence
What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?
- Max Lucado
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.
- Winston Churchill
From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.
- William Law
I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
- Ernest Hemingway
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
- Margaret Atwood
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
- Cicero
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Albert Einstein
Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.
- Joyce Meyer