Contentment Quotes - Page 7

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

Until I was left with nothing but life and books, I realised these two gracious gifts, where enough for me to exist.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Alain de Botton

All roads out of hell lead home.

Shannon L. Alder

Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.

It was bittersweet and lovely how this thing called family could make you feel belonged, wanted and complete.

BEWARE DON'T RUN AFTER A MIRAGEWe were happier when we were poor. We were happier when we did not have good food to eat or good clothes to wear. We were happier when we did not have a luxurious life. We were happier when we did not have our own house because we had a home, a family and understood, loved and lived for each other. I have failed to understand what we run after even when we have all.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

You can live without many wants.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You have enough to share with the world; the gift of love, kindness, goodness, smiles, hugs, prayer, inspiration, fellowship, volunteerism and many more.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you have life, you have everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You do not need many possessions to have a happy life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can be happy irrespective of what you have.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one's ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one's share.

Be content with what you have. You have enough to live happy life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When you see your feet with no footwear, also see those with no feet.

Opportunities do not come in fancy wrappers; only toffees do which give just temporary contentment. Toil to unwrap the real one, covered in hardships.

Vikrmn

Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.

Vikrmn

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.

Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return.

In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness

Rasheed Ogunlaru

A merciful heart beats contently stronger than many vengeful ones

We must not only aim to make a living but to live life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I may not have riches but I have great life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

Money isn’t everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

Plato

Life is your greatest asset.

Lailah Gifty Akita

An ‘usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev’ry corner for a more succulent chop,’ declares Elsie.

Emmanuelle de Maupassant

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Charles Dickens

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

Time after time, they brought each other to new heights of ecstasy, until finally, they lay spent in each others arms in the quiet peace and contentment that only lovers know.

The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.

Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

What do we advertise about You by how we serve? Do we reflect the belief shown in Jesus’ parable that You are a hard master taking what isn’t Yours? Forgive us for even brief lapses into such churlishness. Or, do we reflect a joy in serving that radiates from an intimate and time-tested knowledge of the goodness of the One we serve? Paul and Daniel were confident of this sovereign goodness even when they were prisoners rather than courtiers, and we can likewise tap into a joy that defies circumstances. When this happens, the oft-disappointed world will notice and investigate.11/02/2010 blog

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Charles Dickens

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Contentment is the spirit of joyful existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator.

Rajasaraswathii

Whether you choose left or right path,but the destination should have the contentment of Soul"-Samar Sudha

Ive been waiting for this moment, The one where looking back doesn't seem fascinating anymore & looking forward doesn't seem to be the greatest seek, I am so darn content with creating and living right now that there honestly isn't any room left for the ordinary.

Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech the Holy Spirit to turn it out; for if you will always will to do as God wills, you must be happy. I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, "What!? all this, and Christ too?" What is "all this," compared with what we deserve? And I have read of someone dying, who was asked if he wished to live or die; and he said, "I have no wish at all about it." "But if you might wish, which would you choose?" "I would not choose at all." "But if God bade you choose?" "I would beg God to choose for me, for I would not know which to take." Oh happy state! to be perfectly acquiescent, to lie passive in His hand, and know no will but His.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Maybe that's the definition of true contentment: choosing to rest in who God is, regardless of the circumstances.

Stephanie Rische

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

Charles R. Swindoll

The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.

Osho

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.

If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Of course, if one does not fully trust the promise of God's Kingdom, he will have a hard time taking risks and making sacrifices in this life. A gospel centered around the temporal self - fleeting happiness, earthly success, vain prosperity, things such as these - is the primary ambition of the half-hearted Christian; the one who somewhat believes he is subject to an eternal death; the one who just might believe in men before God, who morbidly fears seeming less than anyone else. The man of this school feels deeply that he has but one life to live, that this must be his only chance, and therefore must have it all in his favor - from glory to comfort to riches - and have it right this instant. He is but hinting that he is overcome because he insists always that he must overcome, that his judgment comes now and by the persons around him. The point is, however, in this sense, that by grace the Christian is indeed free, but only for as long as he wants to be free - the practicality of true freedom: that of God which offers not so much freedom to be like the world as it does freedom from the pressures of having to be like the world. For Divine Law is based solely on love and freedom; whereas secular law, pressure and imitation.

Being content to walk with God brings peace in the midst of uncertainty. It brings wisdom in the unknown. It brings contentment in any situation and grace in every circumstance. It brings mercy and forgiveness in sin and blessed assurance in condemnation. It brings freedom from captivity. Walking with God brings light and air into the pit, as God reaches down to rescue us when we fall.

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present.

He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.

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