Being Content Quotes

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

All of us are responsible to provide for ourselves and our families in both temporal and spiritual ways. To provide providently, we must practice the principles of provident living: joyfully living within our means, being content with what we have, avoiding excessive debt, and diligently saving and preparing for rainy-day emergencies. When we live providently, we can provide for ourselves and our families and also follow the Savior's example to serve and bless others.

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the Lord and deny the Creator. An attitude of this kind is entirely wrong for Christians who believe that even? sparrows? are under the care of the holy angels (cf. Mt. 10:29). The demons, however? suggest worries of this kind? The divine word can bear no fruit, being choked out by our cares. Let us, then, renounce these cares, and throw them down before the Lord, being content with what we have at the moment?

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

What are you doing for others?

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.

The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.