Quotes about Contentment

Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

We cannot change where God has put us. If we are to bloom at all, we must bloom where we have been planted.

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

It's hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you're looking into the eyes of a happy baby.

Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.

Forgive me, Father. Forgive my weakness. Forgive my wondering. Bring me to those beautiful shores of home and let me content my feet in the soft sands of all that you have prepared for me. Let me be thankful for all that you have given, neither hungering nor thirsting for what is not my cup. Your

The secret to a good life isn't in getting what you want; it's in learning to want what you get. I'm learning to want what I've got and not to think about the rest so much.

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you." She

It was all right for life not to be perfect. If you let it, if you didn't close yourself off from the chance for it, life could still be good. Better than good.

I would have lived more fully in the moment, realize how easily a perfect day can slip by unnoticed. Any day is the glory day if you choose to see the glory in it