Quotes About Contentment

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don't want anything then you already have everything.

The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!

The secret of life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have.

You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

I may be boring, but that's okay; I don't want to hard-sell myself.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!