Inspirational Quotes on Contentment

“The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.”

“All joy emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.”

“The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.”

“Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.”

“To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.”

“These things are not strange, Small One, though they are beyond our senses.”

“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."”

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.”

“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”

“I knew I was in danger but was not depressed. I've read pretty well everything.”

“Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.”

“Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.”

“In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.”

“As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.”

“You say, "If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied." You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.”

“The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”

“Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.”

“There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.”

“I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.”