Quotes about Contentment

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness.

felt older. I felt that I had seen ages of the world come and go. Now, finally, I really had lost all desire for change, every last twinge of the notion that I ought to get somewhere or make something of myself. I was what I was. "I will stand like a tree," I thought, "and be in myself as I am." And the things of Port William seemed to stand around me, in themselves as they were.

She was going about her life, taking her pleasures as she found them, suffering what was hers to suffer, doing what she had to do. She had about her no air of self-pity or complaint. And this could only have been because, in her own heart, she was not pitying herself or complaining.

he gave up the idea that there is a better place somewhere else. There is no better place than this, not in this world. And it is by the place we've got, and our love for it and our keeping of it, that this world is joined to Heaven.

Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.

I began to take for granted that I was somewhere, and somewhere that I knew, but I never quite felt that I was somewhere I wanted to be.

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

God grant you your quota of smiles.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.