Paul the Apostle Quotes

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.