Quotes about Contentment

Like I said, I like having someone here. At night I look out my bedroom window, and seeing a light on in here comforts me." He paused in the doorway. "Sort of like, 'All is well in the world.' That's what light does, you know. Says all is well in the world.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.

Singleness can be a wonderful furnace.

God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.