Quotes About Contentment

The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.

Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

You can't always get what you want. But, if you're lucky, you get what you need.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

I always tell my kids, "Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to."

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.