Quotes About Contentment

People look at other people's lives and think, 'I want that,' but when you actually look at your own life, I wouldn't change a single thing.

There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can't worry about what wasn't - I was very lucky to have as many hits as I had.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are.

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

The time you are happy to sit on the bench, is the time you should retire in my opinion.

If I had a free afternoon, I would play music, sit in my backyard, and drink coffee.

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

I have a couple of dogs and I live with my partner. We just like to sit and read and I'm generally quite quiet.

A lot of people think I'm really outgoing and confident, but I'm not. I'd much rather sit in a corner and read my book and my paper. I'm quite happy with my own company.

At the end of the day I'm pleased with the site I created.

I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you don't have to be on the matchmaking sites.

You work at a job, and you reach a certain level, and you're a little satisfied, and you keep going at it a little more, and you finally finish it. You go, 'Ah,' all your dopamine receptor sites are full. You're satiated.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.

I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.