Gratitude & Contentment

“Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.”

“A short moment of honest heartfelt gratitude is much better than praying for hours what you have learned by heart, and which you could not in any case follow with your intuitive perception.”

“But godliness with contentment is great gain.”

“Therefore the sufficiency of contentment is an enduring and unchanging sufficiency.”

“Give them your hand in joy and gratitude and listen to their admonishing, which is part of your conscience!”

“Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches; trust is the best of relationships, Nirvana the highest happiness.”

“Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."”

“In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.”

“Approach Him in solemn moments with a sacred intuitive perception, and pour out before Him what your spirit can bring up in the way of gratitude!”

“Content is the happiest condition of man and the most pleasing to the Creator.”

“Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.”

“Better is little, with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure with trouble.”

“If you begin your day with truly heartfelt gratitude to God, and if you also finish it with equally heartfelt gratitude, be it only gratitude for the lesson you have learned on this day through experiencing, you live well!”

“Who is content Needs fear no shame.”

“Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.”

“The gratitude really felt intuitively is a compensatory value willed by God, which mediates the counter-value to whomsoever gratitude is due.”

“Let him not despise what he has received, nor ever envy others: a mendicant who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”

“Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.”

“Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.”

“Through diligence and care let everything you do arise as a prayer of gratitude!”

“Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me.”

“He who is satisfied with his lot is rich.”

“Nature in its perfection according to the Laws of Creation is the most beautiful gift that God presented to His creatures!”

“Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.”

“The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.”

“To be happy in the truest sense is indeed the greatest thanks which you can give to God.”

“A Bhikshu who, though he receives little, does not despise what he has received, even the gods will praise him, if his life is pure, and if he is not slothful.”

“God, O Ardâ-Vîrâf! requires only two things of the sons of men: the first, that they should not sin; the next, that they should be grateful of the many blessings He is continually bestowing upon them.”

“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.”

“Praise the LORD, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!”

“Thank the Lord for this and joyously take up the gifts which lie ready for you everywhere in Creation!”

“They should think their (coarse) food sweet; their (plain) clothes beautiful; their (poor) dwellings places of rest; and their common (simple) ways sources of enjoyment.”

“Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.”

“When genuine gratitude is uttered the reaction will come in any case.”

“He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.”

“The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.”

“Be simple in your thoughts and deeds; for greatness and also strength lie in simplicity!”

“There is no satisfying lusts, even by a shower of gold pieces; he who knows that lusts have a short taste and cause pain, he is wise.”

“See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?”

“There is no guilt greater than to sanction ambition; no calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot; no fault greater than the wish to be getting.”

“Everything which is real is simple, but this simplicity is experienced by men in a thousandfold ways.”

“Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin, yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.”

“But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.”

“Only now and then does it happen that prayers of thanksgiving ascend which really come from the heart.”

“For having little trouble in oneself contentment is good.”

“Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

“Giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father.”

“Remember this at all times, and thank Him with every breath which you are allowed to take through His boundless Love!”

“And this is the beginning here for a wise Bhikshu: watchfulness over the senses, contentedness, restraint under the law; keep noble friends whose life is pure, and who are not slothful.”

“Who knows to stop Incurs no blame. From danger free Long live shall he.”

“I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.”

“The average man, strange to say, rarely values what he calls his own, but always only that which he does not yet possess.”

“I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.”