Quotes About Contentment

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

I've got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to slap me. I've never been so happy.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

My thing is when we're doing a movie or TV show, I just want to go in and look at it and go, "That was great."

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

I have been the guy who has everything but yet is so one-track minded about what I want, that I can't see my blessings.

I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn't want to but I did.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.