Quotes About Contentment

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being

People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

It's vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

God wants to bless us where we are.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.