Quotes About Contentment

I treasure my friends but not my possessions.

I feel I've come home at the Treasury.

Being old is such a treat!

There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

Life has always treated me well. I therefore won't mind leaving it behind.

Since I came here I've been treated awesome, in all aspects. I really enjoy playing here.

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.

No one should ever feel sorry for me. I've been treated very well for the most part.

I want to be happy. We all want to be happy. I want to be treated like a normal human being, but I also want to be on stage in a fancy dress, so I'm trying to find a happy medium.

I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?

Life treats me very well, as has always been the case, no matter where I have been.

I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

I'm always trying to see the forest for the trees. I try to look at broader brushstrokes and focus on what we can be happy about. That's my nature.

I was not born with tremendous ambition.

I've always been happy about what's gone on in my career. It's been tremendous: more than I can ever hope for.

When I look back and think about it, I feel my career was fairly good but, certainly, not tremendous.

It was never really one of my goals to gain tremendous amount of celebrity or make a tremendous amount of money necessarily.

What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.

I am not bound to spend my precious days on Earth trying to keep up with the Joneses - because the Joneses are really just a bunch of folks in conference rooms changing 'trends' rapidly to create fake monthly emergencies for us.

Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.

I'm a gypsy at heart. I have a little triangle where I tend to go, which is between Sydney, Los Angeles, and London, and I'm happy with that at the moment.

Being single is definitely better than being with the wrong person