Quotes about Contentment
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
— Henri Nouwen
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
— Henry David Thoreau
Oh, one world at a time!
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
— Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
— Henry David Thoreau
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
— Henry David Thoreau
Happiness isn't a destination, it's a mode of travel. Don't worry be happy.
— Henry Ford
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
— Henry Ward Beecher