Being content
Topic: Other
...Contentment

America is a hard place to be content...I'm rolling it around in my mind. Here are some other people's thoughts....as well as some from the Creator...

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Steven Wright

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen

Ecclesiastes 4:8
There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. "For whom am I toiling," he asked, "and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?" This too is meaningless? a miserable business!

Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the LORD leads to life: Then one rests content, untouched by trouble.

Philippians 4:11-13
11I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

1 Timothy 6:6
6But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.

Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."

So simple, yet so.....elusive...