Quotes About Contentment

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.

In my head, that climb up the career ladder just doesn't exist. I feel I've achieved everything I set out to achieve, as far as work goes.

I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.

Whatever's in front of you, you do the best you can and let it land where it lands, and then you walk away.

I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.

If you can write a catchy melody and a song that captures people around the world, what better thing to do? Other than 'Let Her Go,' I haven't managed to do that. And that's fine by me.

If I need a pick-me-up, I pull up a memo file on my phone and type in three things I'm grateful for. The things I've typed on other days are still there. It's a long list. Always helps.

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Men and women cannot live by bread alone. They must also tinkle. Show me someone who has no trouble tinkling, and I will show you a happy and rich person.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

You don't really need much. I try to live my life with that sort of minimalist mentality.

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get to 40, I would like to see where I'm at in my career because I might want to go, 'You know what, I'm done. I'm just happy with everything,' and I'm going to go off my merry way, and I'll probably never pick up a golf club ever again.

Luckily my own life is uncomplicated, which lets me really enjoy other people's complicated messes!

I am not Lionel Messi, I'm not Maradona, I'm just Dries and I'm happy with that.

I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I come from a middle class family and I am not overambitious.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.