To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy not respectable and wealthy not rich; to study hard think quietly talk gently act frankly; to listen to stars and birds babes and sages with open heart; to bear all cheerfully do all bravely await occasions hurry never. In a word to let the spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
True contentment is a real even an active virtue not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it.
Nine keys to contentment Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbors. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
There was once a man Harry called the Steppenwolf. He went on two legs wore clothes and was a human being but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned however was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale he would say to himself ?How many things I have no need of!?
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Contentment is a pearl of great price and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy not respectable and wealthy not rich; to study hard think quietly talk gently act frankly; to listen to stars and birds babes and sages with open heart; to bear all cheerfully do all bravely await occasions hurry never. In a word to let the spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
True contentment is a real even an active virtue not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it.
A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
Nine keys to contentment Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbors. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
There was once a man Harry called the Steppenwolf. He went on two legs wore clothes and was a human being but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned however was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.
Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.
My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
If you are content you have enough to live comfortably.
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
The contented person enjoys the scenery of a detour.
God loveth those who are content.