Quotes About Contentment

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

When you live a truthful life, you can smile without anything behind it; uninhibited joy knowing that you are doing your best to be the best person you can be.

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

All of my life I wanted be something. I guess now that I am, I don't want to be.

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

Some people have everything Other people don't But everything don't mean a thing If it ain't the thing you want

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn't awash in cash — and I don't want to go back.

Ever since I met [my wife], my life has been different. I have what I want. I have my Jewel in Millie.

When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.

Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.

Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.

Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.