Quotes about Contentment
Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.
- Catherine Marshall
It's impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
- Ann Voskamp
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
- Seneca
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
- DH Lawrence
Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
- Albert Einstein
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.
- Marcus Aurelius
Either you're going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.
- Marcus Aurelius
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
- Cicero
The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted, on the fingers of one hand.
- Margaret Atwood
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson