Quotes About Contentment

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

I don't want to play forever. I want to give everything I can now and then walk away knowing I gave everything. The example I think of is Barry Sanders. He was such a great player, and he left when he was still on top. I want that to be me.

Cats don't need you that much. They like to come and get stroked now and then, and they need you to feed them. But other than that, they're not very demanding, are they? I quite like that.

I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

If they told me I couldn't leave the radius of six miles from my house, I really wouldn't care. There's nowhere I really want to go.

My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

You can have a career and kids who love you. But you have to nurture yourself and find a way to be fulfilled so you're not resentful.

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

I wasn't really happy in Oakland or anything like that.

The warmest place I've ever been is my home here in Chapel Hill. It's an oasis of comfort and joy for me.

I had everything that you want. Every material object. Everything. But inside my core I still wasn't satisfied.

In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

I was flavour of the year for a couple of years, and then, like everyone else, I faded into obscurity. I didn't car;, I loved it.

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

I know some people obsess about their appearance but I don't - it's not something that bothers me.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.