Quotes about Contentment
We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'.
— Billy Graham
Our problem with desire is that we want too little.
— CS Lewis
Most people are as happy as they want to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.
— Louise Hay
In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes …
— Melissa McCarthy
It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.
— Vance Havner
Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
— John Lennon
You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.
— Kevin DeYoung
You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.
— Paulo Coelho
If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
— Philip Yancey
If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.
— Bill Johnson
But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
— CS Lewis