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Quotes About Contentment

I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down.
~ Nicole Richie
You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.
~ Paulo Coelho
If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
~ Philip Yancey
This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.
~ Rajneesh
We all want to be happy.
~ Sharon Gannon
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.
~ Sri Chinmoy
We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].
~ Swami Vivekananda
But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want
~ Tammara Webber
You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.
~ William Monahan
I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
~ Abraham A. Ribicoff
I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
~ Alexander Pope
Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame.
~ Amit Abraham
If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
~ Ann Patchett
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
~ Anthony de Mello
I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.
~ Ariel Pink
I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.
~ Ashley Judd
How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
~ Augustus William Hare
I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.
~ Avril Lavigne
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
~ Ayn Rand
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
~ Barbara Kingsolver
He brushed my curls back off my face. "I never pictured my life so complete. I never thought I'd have everything I want. You're everything to me, Angel.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
~ Ben Stein