Quotes About Contentment

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man's life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

I believe love is finding the person you're happiest with because he understands and accepts you the way you exactly are.

I am really happy in life. I have a partner who really understands me and spends time with me.

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

Yeah, there's probably been times when I'm watching cable and seeing there's like three movies that Jack's in and I'm sitting hogging a bag of Cheetos in my underwear and I think 'God, what happened to me? Why can't I be something special like Jack?'

I have all the socks and underwear I need.

It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I've done all that. I'm not out to prove much more to anyone but myself really, to be an artist and see if there is a new undiscovered music out there for me to make.

I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.

A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.

Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really easy to look at someone else's life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.

Unfortunately, I can only act; I do not have the looks, but I am very happy with what God has given me.

Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.