Quotes about Contentment
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- St. Augustine
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.
- Pope Gregory The Great
What is it we buy with this money we desire? Is it something valuable? Is it something lasting? Oh, why do we desire it? Miserable is the rest achieved that costs so dearly.
- Teresa of Avila
Clearly we must not be attached to anything, no matter how innocent, because it will slip from our grasp when least expected; nothing but the eternal can content us.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
My only consolation lies in not having any here below.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The happy man in this life needs friends.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God, make my body healthy and agile, my mind sharp and clear, my heart joyful and contented, my soul faithful and loving.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
happy. I've never seen such a look of peace and love on a woman's face." Augusta's
- Stephanie Grace Whitson
I bet you to believe me when I say again that we do not need a great house, Sarah. We only need a great love.
- Stephanie Grace Whitson
It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
- Germany Kent