Quotes about Contentment
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
- CS Lewis
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
- Epicurus
I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.
- Teresa of Avila
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
- William Hazlitt
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.
- Marcus Aurelius
May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.
- Teresa of Avila
Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
- Teresa of Avila
Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.
- Thomas a Kempis
Our country is wherever we are well off.
- Cicero
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
- St. John Chrysostom
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us
- Teresa of Avila