contentment Quotes

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

I have no trouble sleeping.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.