Quotes about Contentment
Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.
- Charles Spurgeon
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
- Diane von Furstenberg
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.
- Henri Nouwen
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
- Ann Voskamp
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
- GK Chesterton
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.
- Rick Warren
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
- Charles Dickens
Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.
- Brother Yun
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
- Florence Nightingale
Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.
- Corrie Ten Boom
At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.
- Graham Greene
Not knowing who God made us to be, trying to be who we are not, or even just desiring to be someone else, can only lead to a life of misery, frustration, and unfulfillment.
- Stormie Omartian