Quotes About Contentment

When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

I had such a great year I didn't want to forget it.

I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.

When you're with girl you want to be with, everything's perfect.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

I will be happy with myself because I always say I don't want to think back.

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

for true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!

I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.

I still don't know how to drive. I don't go anywhere, really. My brother drives me. I walk around my neighborhood but I don't go anywhere, nor do I want to.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.