Quotes about Contentment

I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.

Lucia argued something similar. She gave as an example the Chihuahua, Marcelo, who lived eternally grateful in the present, accepting whatever might happen without worrying about any future misfortune that might add to all those he had previously encountered in his life as an abandoned dog. "Too

A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.

Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

He has enough who is contented with little.