Quotes About Contentment

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

He needs little who desires but little.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.

There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling for what you are.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Listen to your dreams. They are the whispers of your heart telling you all you'll ever need to be happy.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

Happy is what happens when all your dreams come true.

By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don't need to pursue them all.

You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams.

Dream about things that envelop your being like a comfortable blanket.

When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.

I don't have dreams and inspiration. I just want to enjoy myself.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

Sometimes, Casey, people spend their whole lives living for a dream they can't have. And these people are so busy, so greedy for their dream that they forget all the good things they already have.

I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.