“True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.”
G. K. Chesterton
Category: Quotes to Consider
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Quote to Consider: Contentment’s Shrewd Secret
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Quote to Consider: What is Peace the Presence Of?
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”Benedict Spinoza
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Quote to Consider: Turning Obstacles Into Propellers
“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.”Henry David Thoreau
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Quote to Consider: Getting Yourself On Your Side
“Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.”Christian Bovee
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Quote to Consider: Safety Comes With a Price
“If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Quote to Consider: Believing in Oneself
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires… courage.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote to Consider: Distilling True Value
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”T.S. Eliot
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Quote to Consider: Best Not to Over-Think It
“Up ahead they’s a thousan’ lives we might live, but when it comes, it’ll on’y be one.”Ma in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
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Quote to Consider: Youth is But Half of Life
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth ‘a whole I plant, Youth shows but half; Trust God; see all nor be afraid.’”Robert Browning
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Quote to Consider: Love It or Leave It
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”Kahlil Gibran