Quotes about Contentment

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

If you're unhappy with what you've had over the last 50 years, you have an unfortunate misappraisal of life. It's as good as it gets, and it's very likely to get worse.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.