Contentment
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This document contains 12 quotes from various authors throughout history about contentment. The quotes discuss how true contentment comes from appreciating what you have rather than desiring more, how a simple life can provide true happiness, and how losing what you have can help you realize how content you should feel with your current situation.
Contentment
- 1. Copyright © 2007 Tommy's Window. All Rights Reserved ♫ Turn on your speakers! CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDES Tommy's Window Slideshow CONTENTMENT "And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content." 1 Timothy 6:8
- 2. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. —Epicurus (Greek philosopher, 41-270 BC)
- 3. Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty. --Socrates (Greek philosopher, 470-399 BC)
- 4. We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. —Fredrick Gottlob Keonig (German inventor, 1774-1833)
- 5. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. —Charles Caleb Colton (English sportsman and writer, 1780-1832)
- 6. If the sun of God's countenance shines upon me, I may well be content with the rain of adversity. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN
- 7. To be content, just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now and then got it back again. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN
- 8. 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. —John Balguy (English philosopher, 1686-1748) www.tommyswindow.com For more PowerPoint messages visit: Feel free to share this message