Powerful Thoughts On Contentment

Nine Requisite For Contented Living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength 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 neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.
Balguy

If a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
Henry Ward Beecher

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented.
Christian Bovee

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
John Bunyan

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.
Bliss Carman

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civillization.
Eugene V. Debs

All our discontents spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Daniel Defoe