Quotes About Contentment

...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time!

I am at a stage in my life where I want to only do thing that I love. I only want to do things that make me happy. Making money is important, but it's not my ultimate driver.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

Not everyone wants to be happy

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

When we have got it, we want something else.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.