Quotes About Contentment

There's often a natural inclination to want more.

My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else.

I live in a one bedroom apartment by myself which is cool. I like to have my stuff exactly where I want it, so living alone is good for me.

I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.

Money and fame? I never had it, don't really know if I want it.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.

We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.

...You deserve to be happy. What can I do?" Don't send me away, I thought. He looked at me again. "What do you want?" "I want to taste an apple," I said. And your lips, I thought.

How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

Just have a little bit of something that you want. Don't overdo it.

I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!

I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?

At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?