Quotes About Contentment

the price of admission. He didn't think it could ever get better than that. But then she'd gotten

Oscar Wilde said, "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best," he thought.

it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better.

A man knows he's in love when he's totally happy just watching his girlfriend do even the simplest things—peeling an apple, combing her hair, fluffing up a bed pillow, laughing.

Unfortunately but absolutely fair to all, the one thing money can't buy is health - and happiness.

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Before Ricky Gervais came along, I was a jobbing actress and perfectly content if a little unfulfilled: I'd just done an advert for Imodium. That year, 1999, I auditioned for four parts. 'The Office' was the only one I got. What its success gave me was freedom of choice.

It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33, 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

Never be ungrateful.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

Unhappiness isn't just the result of genetics or past trauma or career trouble. I think that some of our unhappiness is simply due to the burden of all our things.

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.