Quotes about Contentment

Contentment comes from having a positive attitude. It means: • Expecting the best in everything—not the worst • Remaining upbeat—even when you get beat up • Seeing solutions in every problem—not problems in every solution • Believing in yourself—even when others believe you've failed • Holding on to hope—even when others say it's hopeless

The bottom line is that when you long for the gifts, favor, position, or opportunities of someone else, it distracts you from the gifts, favor, position, and opportunities that God has given YOU.

How do you cultivate optimism? By learning the secret of contentment. If you can learn that, then no matter what happens to you, you can weather the storm and build on the good you find in any situation.

I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.

The happiest people in life don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just try to make the best of everything. They're like the person in a remote village going to a well every day to get water who says, "Every time I come to this well, I come away with my bucket full!" instead of, "I can't believe I have to keep coming back to this well to fill up my bucket!

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.