Robert Plant Quotes

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

He that studies his content, wants it.

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marveled at it.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

I often stop when I'm doing something, in the middle of rehearsals or some other job, and I try to take a minute to think "Okay, this might be as good as it gets, so drink it in, appreciate it now". So far, I've been lucky because another job has always come along to equal the last.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

I've been really aware of how important it is to me to just stay in the moment and enjoy it while it lasts. Because that's all you've got. If it ends, I'll move on to doing something else. If it lasts, great.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.