Quotes About Contentment

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.'

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world.

I've never wished I was anybody else.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress.

I could always say I wished I had a better film career... but overall, I've been one of the lucky ones.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

I love getting up in the morning. I love coming to my office. I love going to movie sets. It's really what every parent wishes for their kid - to do what makes them happy.

I wish for other people because I already have all my wishes.

I've always said that I'm very happy at Real Madrid and I hope that, if God wishes, I can retire at this club.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.