Quotes About Contentment

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little.

Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.

I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

What the people of the world want most and have always wanted is bread and peace.

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.

If God didn't want you to have it, He would never have let you see it.

When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

There is no thermometer for wants!

I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.