Quotes about Contentment

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Surely joy is the condition of life.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Those who are the happiest are not neccessarily those for whom life has been easiest.

There's a lot that is good in your life-don't take it for granted. Don't get so focused on the struggles that you miss the gift of today

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

I've got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I'm okay.

Without joy in your life you are powerless.

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.