Quotes about Contentment

Thomas Aquinas writes: "There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

Seek His face and not His hand.

We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too—maybe even yours.

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

Many people say "my life stinks". Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.

Nobody on their death bed ever worried about their bank balance.

The people who are happy are the ones who decide to be happy.

No matter what we own, we will not be happy if doing God's will is not a priority in our lives.

There are many emotions we have to resist, but happiness is not one of them! So go ahead and be as happy as you can possibly be.

The mind should not be filled with reasoning, worry, anxiety, fear, and the like. It should be calm, quiet, and serene. As

is full of people and situations that don't please us, so if we are waiting for perfect circumstances to make us happy, we will be waiting forever. That's why we must learn to base our happiness and joy not on outward circumstances, but on the Lord's presence inside us. Thankfully, we can learn not to fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in