contentment

...'This is what I have seen to be good and proper: that one should eat and drink and find enjoyment for all the hard work at which he toils under the sun during the few days of life that the true God has given him, for that is his reward.'_ Ecclesiastes 5:18

Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way.

You__e all so obsessed with other worlds, you__e so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you__e never bothered to figure out what__ going on here!

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

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 fountain, and drink immediately.' Though the beams are taken away, yet the sun remains the same in the firmament as ever it was.

The two women sat by the fire, tilting their glasses and drinking in small peaceful sips. The lamplight shone upon the tidy room and the polished table, lighting topaz in the dandelion wine, spilling pools of crimson through the flanks of the bottle of plum gin. It shone on the contented drinkers, and threw their large, close-at-hand shadows upon the wall. When Mrs Leak smoothed her apron the shadow solemnified the gesture as though she were moulding an universe. Laura's nose and chin were defined as sharply as the peaks peaks on a holly leaf.

A man may be absolutely poor and dispossessed of everything, and yet be wordly. Another man may be very wealthy and yet severed. Severance means that one's heart must not be attached to the things of this world. It does not mean that a man must dispossess himself of them, or that he must not work and earn or practice his profession, whatever it may be, in the world. It does not mean that he must not put on what he has. If he has a silk garb, let him wear that; and if he has not, but has a suit of cotton goods, let him wear that clean. He must feel the same in both.

There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.

The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing.

No, of course not. I just feel content,_ she said carefully.__hat__ an old person__ word,_ said Ethan.

I HAVE PLENTYI know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have the learned the secret of being content in any and every situation. Whether well fed or hungry , whether living in plenty or in want I.WILL HAVE PLENTY

Contentment is the only real wealth

People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave.

Be happy in the day - Today is enough - Each moment is all we need in the today given and not the tomorrow to come

Everything that is truly of value__ove, family, peace, health, and contentment__an never be bought.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.