Quotes About Contentment

When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

It's not about the goal, it's about how you want to feel when you get there.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

Most people are as happy as they want to be.

I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.

Find a girl, settle down, If you want you can marry.

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

Somehow it all got too out of hand, too complicated for a simple man. Don't want to have to pick and choose, hey, look at all these things I'll never use.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

I'm satisfied with a little while you haters want it all. You waitin' for the spring and I'm gettin' it in the fall.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.