contentment

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

Time after time, they brought each other to new heights of ecstasy, until finally, they lay spent in each others arms in the quiet peace and contentment that only lovers know.

The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.

Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.

Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

What do we advertise about You by how we serve? Do we reflect the belief shown in Jesus_ parable that You are a hard master taking what isn__ Yours? Forgive us for even brief lapses into such churlishness. Or, do we reflect a joy in serving that radiates from an intimate and time-tested knowledge of the goodness of the One we serve? Paul and Daniel were confident of this sovereign goodness even when they were prisoners rather than courtiers, and we can likewise tap into a joy that defies circumstances. When this happens, the oft-disappointed world will notice and investigate.11/02/2010 blog

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Contentment is the spirit of joyful existence.

I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator.