Quotes About Contentment

I don't have the songwriter's obligatory sob story. My sister and I both had a very happy, normal childhood and we've turned into sensible adults.

You learn you have to accept the way things are, and the sooner you accept them, the sooner you become at peace with them, and then the things start to get better.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

I am around people I love to be with all day; I'm not lonely. The simplest, happiest pleasure is being on my couch with my dog, Neville. Nothing is more comforting or soothing.

We always want what we don't have, and I'd like a long, sophisticated nose rather than a short, turned-up one.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Misery and sorrow, I don't want to have anything to do with them. I always want to be happy and cheerful.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

No one's going to feel sorry for me because I've been so blessed.

I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.

I've been very blessed. I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me.

If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

I've never sought to be known or recognized by people.

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

I've never really sought out publicity.

It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous.

When I recieved the Padmabhushan it was a happy moment no doubt, but it was not something I sought desperately to win. I never worked towards the award.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

It's going to sound cheesy, but if I have family and friends I don't really care where I am.