Quotes About Contentment

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

I honestly just want to make myself happy most, and if other people like it, then that's great. If they don't, then I'm still happy.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

You can't always get what you want.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

God wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.