Quotes about Contentment
Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.
— Alphonsus Liguori
I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
— Marianne Williamson
The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
— Wayne Dyer
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.
— Charles Stanley
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
— Samuel Johnson
I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.
— Angela Bassett
You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.
— Richard Paul Evans