Quotes About Contentment

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

Life is too short to be unhappy.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Success has got nothing to do with being happy. I've been very rich, and been unhappy, and I've been very poor, and been happy.

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

The unhappy people are those who listen to others. I never listened to anyone, and I'm very happy.

Sometimes you don't realize how unhappy you are in a situation until you are out of it, because it's just kind of day-to-day life.

I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.

I think rather than being unhappy with somebody, being alone and happy is better.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

For years I thought of many other people. As we all do. But we should all step back and say, 'What's making me unhappy? What's not working for me? What can I take out for a bit and take out long-term that will help me a bit?'

I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

I hate the school of thought that says work is work and that you have to be unhappy at work because that's what work is. I totally respect the fact that not everyone has the choices that I have, and that some people have to work jobs that they don't like because they don't have any other options.

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.

I heard Springsteen was an unhappy person. I don't know, I haven't read his biography. But a lot of people in my field should be a lot more unhappy than they are.

There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.