Quotes about Contentment
If today was the last day of my life, would I be happy with what I'm about to do?"[8]
- Terri Savelle Foy
joy is not found in the things which surround us, but lives only in the soul.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
He has never inspired me with any desire and left it unsatisfied, and that is why I have always found His bitter chalice full of sweetness.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Our Father, St. John of the Cross, says with great truth: "All good things have come unto me, since I no longer sought them for myself.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
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- St. Therese of Lisieux
Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater.
- Thomas a Kempis
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
- Thomas a Kempis
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)
- Thomas a Kempis
He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.
- Thomas a Kempis
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
- Thomas a Kempis
He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
- Thomas a Kempis
If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
- Thomas a Kempis