Quotes About Contentment

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

I just kind of take every day at a time. I just know that I don't do anything that I don't want to do; I enjoy everything that I do and that's what you have to do to keep it good and keep it real.

As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

I'm always trying to make people happy, that's really my theme on Vine. I always say I love life like crazy and I want people to love life like crazy too.

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

I could have anything I wanted and if I didn't have it, it was because I didn't want it.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.