Quotes About Contentment

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.

When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.

I was able to find myself spiritually by realizing that my happiness started with me.

Everybody would like to be starter, but if I'm not, it's no big deal for me.

I was a slow starter. I didn't really make any dazzling impressions. But I don't really regret that because I learned a lot along the way. I always kept busy - I found my way my way, and I'm happy about it.

I'm starting to get old. I want to eat some hamburgers and just relax.

I've never been married, and I have no regrets about not starting my own family. I come from a large one, so there are so many people around all the time. I've been very happy, but I've never gotten married. That's about the size of it. I would have been a good father because I've been a father to my brothers' and sisters' children.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Satisfaction isn't a state that comes easily to me.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

It's great to be compared to someone of the stature of Gareth Bale, but I'm happy to be Ryan Sessegnon.

I will never get to Lady Gaga's status. That's not something I want.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.

My 30s were obviously amazing, having kids and building the bulk of my career, but although outsiders might think, 'well, he got's a great life, the major, the gold medal, the Ryder Cup status, all those other garlands, what's left?' it's nothing like that. I'm actually still very, very hungry.

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.