Quotes About Contentment

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

It's hokey, but I love sitting in an inner tube and taking it easy on a lazy river ride. I can sit there all day.

I haven't had my teeth fixed, I haven't had a hair transplant. I haven't had a skin peel, tummy tuck. I've done literally nothing.

I certainly wouldn't have a facelift or a nip and tuck; that fills me with horror.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

You have to turn the lemons life gives you into lemonade, and you have to take time to sit back and enjoy it.

I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.

My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.

I never regretted what I turned down.

Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

I was happy to be turning 40. It was a good one.

Our society's sort of turning into a two-class system, where... most of the wealth and privileges are being concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people. And there's the rest of us... that have to go out and work and struggle and live and die and try to find some happiness and contentment and security.

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.