Quotes About Contentment

It is a cold and harrowing morning in the life of a man the day he wakes up, looks at himself in the mirror, and finally realizes that he is not, never has been, nor will ever be George Clooney.

never paralyzed by the need to judge and to compare. They don't dwell on the fact that today's walk isn't as nice as yesterday's, or this forest isn't as interesting as the one they were in last week.

They love being wherever they are. The reason, and it is a great lesson, is no doubt that they are perfectly content to be who they are, without torturing themselves with alternatives: They love being dogs.

Do they miss being sexed? These are hard questions to answer, but we can think of them in this way: If we were neutered before sexual maturity, we probably wouldn't miss what we didn't know. So may it be with our dogs.

Sometimes all it takes to be happy is a dime on the sidewalk.

It's amazing how two simple objects can make your day.

I'm comfortable with Spain and with Barcelona.

A lot of people say when you get a short life span you want to go out and do all of this crazy stuff like go bungee jumping and travel to exotic places. But you just want to live.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.

The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy.

I'm quite discreet. I think I'd rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have something to say. 'Live hidden, and live happy.' Is that the same in English as it is in French?

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

While I'm not thinking I'll be the next Britney Spears, as long as I'm happy with myself that's all I want.

I am not conscious of the fact that something special should be done for me.

I enjoy playing football, and that's about it. I'm no-one special.

You don't want to be single forever. But also, once you have your own life, your partner has to be someone very special because life is so busy. If that person isn't right for you, don't settle for second best.

A lot of people, they think, 'Oh, I'm only going to be happy when I find a special person who is going to make me happy.' No. In life, you have to be happy with yourself first, number one.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.

If someone is a known spectacular quantity, then they're probably working in a job and very happy with that.

I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.