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Quotes About Contentment

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
~ Rafael Nadal
How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."
~ Rajneesh
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.
~ Regina Spektor
If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.
~ Richard Avedon
Everything that you want is not very important. Everything that was given to you without any want is very important.
~ Debasish Mridha
What do you do if you've got everything?There's only one thing you can do. More.
~ Pete Waterman
It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Appreciate what you have to get more of what you want.
~ Debasish Mridha
Happy is he who marries the woman he wants, happier is he who marries the woman he needs, and happiest is he who marries the woman he wants and needs.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Whatever you want to be, it is okay with me as long as you never forget to be happy.
~ Debasish Mridha
Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
~ Jack Kornfield
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.
~ Phil Kaye
Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
~ Rumi
One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.
~ Nathaniel Branden
I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
~ Doris Lessing
Why ain't you mad?" I asked. "Might as well get mad at the wind for blowin'. Some things just be what they be.
~ Susan Crandall
I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion-
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
There was something missing inside me I was trying to fill up, but I went about doing it the wrong way. But there sure isn't anything missing inside me now, because you're there.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I have so much character that adding beauty to the mix would be greedy.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
There wasn't much left at the end of the month for her favorite luxuries—great clothes and hardback books, but she didn't mind. She bargain-shopped and used the library.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Who needs food? Your smile alone is enough to nourish me for weeks." He
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips