822 Quotes About Contentment

But these activities—whining about what's fair, begging forgiveness, hoping for a miracle—these demand energy, and that was gone from me. Contentment on the other hand demands little, and I drew more and more into its circle.

Contentment is created when your behaviour is consistent with your values. When you act in ways that are consistent with the core of who you are, even when your actions aren't approved by others, you increase your overall contentment. Happiness, success, money, relationships, and even the approval of others will come and go in your life, but what is ultimately satisfying is feeling content.

The chance you had is the life you’ve got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people’s lives, even about your children being gone, but you mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: ‘Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.’ I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

I mean no disrespect, but you are offering me things I have not even asked for.”“I am offering you things that will bring contentment in your life.”“I was born content.” He was up on his feet, smile on his lips, his gaze drinking her lovely looks by the eyefuls. “And now,” he added with a bigger smile, “having met you, madam, I can boast to my friends that I am the most favored man of my race.” He brought his palms together. “I must leave now.

Contentment is not achieved by having stuff. It is achieved by enjoying the stuff you have.

Contentment is accepting what God has given us, and, by His strength, making the most of it.

A true, continuous, celebration of Life is the ability to always be happy and content no matter what is happening in your Life, no matter what you have or don’t have. Simply, Happiness is a decision. You are happy the moment you are content with what you have, when you accept what is. You are happy when you serve another, when you are making our world a better place.

The more contented we are with our own problems the less intrusive we will be of other people’s cup of tea.

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