Quotes About Contentment

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.

Now that I'm a pez and a LEGO I don't really want for any more.

I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

I don't care if the girl is slim or fat, I just want the girl that makes me happy.

I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.

So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.

Theres not a lot out there, and what is out there has to be really interesting to make me want to leave my life, which is really precious to me.

Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.