Don’t be a cloud just because you can’t be a star.
Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you now have, and then suddenly got it back.
A well-filled stomach is indeed a great thing–all else is luxury.
If your bell isn’t ringing, your clapper is broken.
A great deal of what we see depends on what we are looking for.
Luxuries are great, but only after you have the necessities of life.
Don’t forget that living with your neighbors is also hard on them.
It may be true that man does not live by bread alone–but look at those getting along on crust.
Poor indeed is the man who cannot enjoy the simple things of life.
Unless we find beauty and happiness in our backyard, we will never find them in the mountains.
You are only poor when you want more than you have.
Be content with your lot–never satisfied with your achievements.
If you are not happy with what you have, how could you be happier with more?
He who lives content with little possesses everything.
Contentment is not found in having everything–but in being satisfied with everything you have.
Cure for covetousness: think of something to give instead of something to get.
Happiness is not having what you want–but wanting what you have.
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have.
Most of us won’t be content with our lot until it’s a lot more.
A really contented man has his yesterdays all filed away, his present in order, and his tomorrow subject to instant revision.
Contentment is the power to get out of any situation all there is in it.
All the world lives in two tents–content and discontent.
The richest person is the one who is contented with what he has.
It is all right to be contented with what you have but never with what you are.
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
A contented person is one who enjoys the scenery along the detour.
He who lives content with little possesses everything.
He is not poor who has little, but who desires much.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
The key to contentment is to realize that life is a gift–not a right.
Some Christians are like kittens–contented only when petted.
Many people want what they don’t need and need what they don’t want.
If all of us had everything we wanted, we wouldn’t have enough places to keep it.
If we cannot have what we like, maybe we can like what we have.
We have possessions without peace and comfort without contentment.
Contentment can stifle improvement.
Christian contentment is part of the learning process of becoming a Christian.
A Christian is one who does not need to consult his bank balance to see how wealthy he is.