Quotes About Contentment

I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.

Most days I am very low key. Jumpers and jeans are my staples.

I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.

I don't care for jewellery and fancy clothes.

I don't wear any jewellery or gold at home.

I'm through buying cars. I'm through buying jewelry.

I'm not much of a jewelry man. I don't even wear a watch half the time.

I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

I've lived a charmed life. I married the only girl I ever loved and did the only job I ever loved.

I think I have one of the best jobs.

Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.

What sexual preference do you hope she has?" "Happiness." Isnt that cool?

The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

If you are not happy for a minute, then you lost 60 seconds of happiness in your life

But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

I loved it; I was living a dream.

Men are made unhappy not because they fail to gratify some fixed set of desires, but by the gap that continually arises between new wants and their fulfillment.

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

Many tell me that when; ALONE, they discover 'good company'.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.