Quotes about Contentment

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

I want time in which to walk quietly over the earth, among uncrazed men. I want time in which to build a house, inhabit it, create a past with meaning. I want time in which to seek and find love. I want time. I want to be unhurried, uncaught. I want time in which to sleep and waken, in which to dream the truth of my being on earth. Time.

that gratitude for life came from being happy

Rest and be thankful.

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

After 'Versace' and 'American Horror Story,' if that was the end of the line, then I can go happy.

It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me.

Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.