Quotes about Contentment
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
— Thomas Merton
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
— E Stanley Jones
Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
— Marianne Williamson
God wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything.
— AW Tozer
The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.
— Rob Bell
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
— Elbert Hubbard
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
— Catherine of Siena
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