Quotes about Contentment

No matter what you're facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.

God has already provided all you need to live this one day His way!

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Prayer loosens the grip of envy on our hearts.

Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.