Quotes About Contentment

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

No, I don't have a boyfriend, I don't want one.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.

O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

The reason most people don't accomplish much is because they don't want much.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

A guy isn't the only thing that will make me happy. If I never find romance or love, that will be okay. It's what I want, but it doesn't define me.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes …

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

I think I'm someone who is pretty happy with themselves and pretty content where they are in life. I want to share my happiness and hopefully enrich people's lives that I come into contact with.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

Walking beside you I want for nothing.