Quotes about Contentment

Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands we put ourselves first at their expense. When we choose to be self-centered, we become less kind and content—more needy, sensitive, and demanding. More unsatisfiable. Moodiness and impatience, laziness and irresponsibility, are only selfishness in disguise.

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

Well I've had a happy life.

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy