Quotes about Contentment

When you have an interior life, it certainly doesn't matter what side of the prison fence you're on.... I've already died a thousand times in a thousand concentration camps. I know everything. There is no new information to trouble me. One way or another, I already know everything. And yet, I find this life beautiful and rich in meaning. At every moment.

We all feel better when we are grateful. There is great wisdom in understanding that no matter the situation, there is always something for which we can choose to be grateful.

But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

As David told a friend one day, "I'm working so hard to live where we want to live that I don't actually get to live there." As

When you focus on the things you need," he went on to explain, "you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have — and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose … But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

THE FIFTH DECISION FOR SUCCESS: Today I will choose to be happy.

My God has bestowed upon me many gifts, and for these I will remember to be grateful. Too many times I have offered up the prayers of a beggar, always asking for more and forgetting to give thanks.

The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces.

Whenever we have more than we need, our natural assumption will be that it's for our own consumption.

I will not trust in riches but in him who richly provides.

People with greed lodged in their heart fear that God either can't or won't take care of them. More to the point, they're afraid that God won't take care of them in the fashion or style in which they want to be cared for. And the gap between what they suspect God might be willing to do and what they want becomes a major source of anxiety. So greedy people shoulder the burden to acquire and maintain everything they need to provide the sense of security they desire.

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.