Quotes About Contentment

I feel like I should be a really happy, bubbly person to correspond with my good fortune, but I'm more of a this-could-dry-up-any-minute person who tries to enjoy it while it lasts. And if it does dry up, I'll still have the people I love, and I'll just figure out how to pay rent.

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

I can't obsess, I can't become somebody who grows old disgracefully, I'm not one of those people that tries to pin back the hands of time.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

I don't care whether something makes one dollar or a trillion because guess what? I don't know many happy rich people. And I know a lot of rich people.

This is what I always wanted to do in my entire life, so I am not going to sit here and complain that it is so terrible to be in successful movies, because it becomes a trilogy!

The most climate friendly trip we are ever going to take is the trip we never had to take because we were close to what we wanted.

Capricorns like to stay in one place. I have to go to work in places like New York, but basically, I don't want to go anywhere. One time, I got a trip around the world for doing something on television, and the travel agent was so excited, I gave her the tickets.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

I'm what you call a satisfied single. I don't want to give any trip reports when I come home.

I'm told that as a child, when my dad was alive, I'd get up, put on my coat and go sit in the back of his car. The driver would just go around the neighborhood - as long as I had my little trip, I was happy.

I'm not lookin' to go platinum or triple platinum.

As a writer, I spend a lot of time alone, and I like it. I'm also a long-distance runner, and I love long, solo road trips; I can drive literally all night, drinking coffee, and not even listening to the radio, just strangely content sifting through the random thoughts in my own head.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

I always consider what I am doing at the moment the finest thing in my life. I find there's more happiness that way than in forever taking old triumphs out of trunks and dusting them off.

I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.

I gave away most of my trophies, put away the plaques.

Individual trophies, I have quite a lot right now at home, but there will never be enough.

I've never measured success in terms of trophies. I would never say, 'If I have never won the Champions League, I am not happy in life.'

I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.

I've never been a trophy guy.

I dont regret for one minute that I only won one trophy because again, to play at Wembley and lift the trophy, how many players can say that? Of course, Id like to have been in contention to win trophies every single year, but I wasnt, but I can sleep easy at night knowing I got the best out of what I had.