Quotes about Contentment
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
- Ellen Glasgow
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
- Jeremiah Burroughs
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
- Kathleen Norris
The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.
- Wayne Dyer
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas Edison
He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson