"One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking..."
- Steven Furtick
"Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth."
- Larry McMurtry
"The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment."
- Henry Miller
"There are enough resources in the world for everyone."
- Bryant McGill
"The one who finds contentment is truly rich."
- Dillon Burroughs
"If all I had was all that money could buy, I'd be bankrupt!" EL"
- Evinda Lepins
"Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still."
- Julian Barnes
"The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting."
- P.D. James
"The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition."
- Maggie Stiefvater