Quotes about Contentment
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?
- Tina Fey
Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming to have what you have.
- Germany Kent
The best richness is the richness of the soul
- Anonymous
When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.
- David Jeremiah
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
- Thomas Merton
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
- E Stanley Jones
Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
- Marianne Williamson
God wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything.
- AW Tozer
The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.
- Rob Bell
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
- Catherine of Siena