Contentment Quotes - Page 6

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Richard Paul Evans

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

We had little but we didn't know we had little. It seemed to us that we had much and we were very content.

Aleksandra Layland

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

It is not simply that God has arbitrarily made us such that He is our only good. Rather God is the only good of all creatures: and by necessity, each must find its good in that kind and degree of fruition of God which is proper to its nature. The kind and degree may vary with the creature's nature: but that there ever could be any other good, is an atheistic dream. George Macdonald, in a passage I cannot now find, represents God as saying to men, 'You must be strong with my strength and blessed with my blessedness, for I have no other to give you.' That is the conclusion of the whole matter. God gives what He has, not what He has not: He gives the happiness that there is, not the happiness that is not. To be God - to be like God and to share His goodness in creaturely response - to be miserable - these are the only three alternatives. If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows - that only food that any possible universe ever can grow - then we must starve eternally.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

Shannon L. Alder

..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!

What we decide does not mean will always happen, so be content with what you are

Sadashivan Nair

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

Those who think life is a competition become corrupt.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

Life’s contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.

Matshona Dhliwayo

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

Lyle Wesley Dorsett

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

Tim Fargo

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

Rasheed Ogunlaru

There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight. There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs. And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in God's service. So lift up your eyes. Refuse to be unhappy.

Richelle E. Goodrich

While many of us admire nice things, materialism and suffering may share a connection. When we place a great deal of our happiness in material things, we run the great risk of losing our happiness when our material things become lost, old, or damaged. Toys break. Cars get dents. Clothes get ripped. Jewels get lost or stolen. Riches come and go.If we collect moments rather than things, these are ours to keep. If we redefine wealth by the amount of love and kindness we afford ourselves to give to others, we can transform our lives.

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

Jeremiah Burroughs

Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!

Israelmore Ayivor

When you meet joyEven in that momentary experience, This ephemeral emotion unravelsAll those colors of contentmentWhich sparkle from within

The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Yet is has happened every day. One goes into the forest to pick food and already the thought of one fruit rather than another has grown up in one’s mind. Then, may it be, one finds a different fruit and not the fruit one thought of. One joy was expected and another is given. But this I had never noticed before–that the very moment of the finding there is in the mind a kind of thrusting back, or setting aside. The picture of the fruit you have not found is still, for a moment, before you. And if you wished–if it were possible to wish–you could keep it there. You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.

Never envy others. Be happy and love your work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Contentment is the greatest joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you stay open to the wisdom of your Muse, you may discover you’re a playwright, a sculptor, a kitchen-table comedian, a beacon of creative kindness, or a person who chooses grace over ego and contentment over greed. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you’ll truly be an artist of being alive.

When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Contentment is joy of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Living life with contentment is the greatest well-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When you are happy with what you have, you are the happiest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be grateful for what you have and you will always have enough.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Live by your own sacred standard.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagined happiness is still happiness.

Richelle E. Goodrich

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

Contentment is the joy of the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest life is the joy of contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest life is joy of contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Contentment is the joy of life

Lailah Gifty Akita

What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey.

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.

Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.

Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered.

I am living my dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Compare your life only with the commandments of God.Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Thankfulness is the life of contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mind perhaps more accessible to those who are affluent, who conform to social norms, who suppress judgment in the service of faith, and who are not overly bothered by societal injustice...The real conservatism of positive psychology lies in its attachment to the status quo, with all its inequalities and abuses of power. Positive psychologists' tests of happiness and well-being, for example, rest heavily on measures of personal contentment with things as they are.

Barbara Ehrenreich

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

Jennifer Crusie

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom she could share all parts of her life, someone to be her equal and her inspiration.

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