822 Quotes About Contentment

Happiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn't make you happy, contentment does.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

During the last year she was alive, at age 95, my mother said many times, “It’s so freeing to realize that nothing really matters.” She said it joyously, with relief, as if a burden had been lifted. She also said over and over, “Love yourself.

Sometimes a story is all you have,” she [Coralee] says. “Sometimes that can be enough.

Expensive toys are nice to have. But the most fun can be the simple and cheap ones. Make the best of experiences out of the minimum resources that you may have.

My thesis for this book is that Christian contentment is finding delight in God's wise plan for my life and humbly allowing him to direct me in it.

If you undervalue what you have, you will end up overvaluing what you don't.