Quotes about Contentment

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.

Life never stops, child. Even when it's noisy, unpleasant, painful, it's still the sound of duty, of love, of family, of laws older than time that help us to ultimately find contentment- to be happy. It's the sound of our universe. It's the sound of purpose.

It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.