Quotes about Contentment

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

Find your security, success, and peace in God. Then, and only then, can it never be taken from you.

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

The air was soft, as it often was in this lovely month, and Eddie inhaled its sweetness. He found himself uplifted as he worked, caught up in something outside himself and his petty wants and needs. The clouds drifted like ice in a tumbler. Through his lens the river seemed made of light, there was the shimmer, and for a moment the world seemed whole to him.

But if God love me, Celie, I don't have to do all that. Unless I want to. There's a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.