Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief–acceptance.

The author speculates that one of the differences between a fallen world and a restored one is that men will be able to say they have had enough and mean exactly that – rather than...

The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there.

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe, that conveyed God’s goodness to you? ‘The pipe is cut off,’ says God, ‘come to me, the...

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people’s lives. It was a life of dignity and...

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.

A year of contentment is worth more than ten of prosperity.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be...

You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.

Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking — it is content.

Perhaps…I could not be content with mere contentment!

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give...

Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: for there are so...

One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;For all such vain wishes in him were preventedBy a fortunate habit of being contented.

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!

…those who deny or oppose these so pleasant delights (of virtue), do so only from jealousy, you may be sure, from the barbarous pleasure of making others as guilty and unhappy as they are. They...

It is our work to cast care, and it is God’s work to take care.

In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on her lap. We were silent. Everything was silent. Only the pulse was audible. Like a...

God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it’s in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life – it has given me me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped...

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] – even in the midst of trial.

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness...

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment.

I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make...

Practice appreciation for who you are and what you have… and allow your life to unfold in the most amazing way.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

There was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing,And in truth it was lamentable.But there was one who heardThe clip-clapper of this tongue of woodAnd knew what the manWished to sing,And with that...

If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be.

We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.

All that glitters is not gold. The rich and famous aren’t necessarily happier than you. Love your life, be happy.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…

Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom...

Ma SolitudePour avoir si souvent dormiAvec ma solitudeJe m’en suis fait presqu’une amieUne douce habitudeEll’ ne me quitte pas d’un pasFidèle comme une ombreElle m’a suivi çà et làAux quatre coins du mondeNon, je ne...

More often than not, it’s the poor who find themselves content with what they have because they come to the realization of the difference between having something they need and something they want.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it’s less about wanting, and more about being.” I wonder after I say it if he’ll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

You do not have to have the best of everything to make the best of everything.

I want to cultivate a deep sense of gratitude, of groundedness, of enough, even while I’m longing for something more. The longing and the gratitude, both. I’m practicing believing that God knows more than I...

…you play the instrument you have.