A Quote by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Happiness is wanting what you have.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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Happiness Wanting

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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
American - Writer
Born: January 4, 1933

Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.

Frank A. Clark

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

Carolyn Hax

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

George Sand

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

Timothy Keller

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

Beverly Lewis

Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering.

Dalai Lama

Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.

Sam Shoemaker

The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory belief that we've almost forgotten the real truth about happiness. So busy are we trying to deserve happiness that we no longer have much time for ideas such as: Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. The moment you believe that happiness has to be deserved, you must toil forevermore.

Robert Holden

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

Garth Brooks

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have

Confucius

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

Sara Rue

The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.

Alex Trebek

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Lydia M. Child

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.