Quotes About Contentment

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

If I look in the mirror when I get up or before going to bed at night, I see a man of average ugliness with stubble, an unruly mane of hair, a squint nose, slightly protruding ears, and bags under my eyes. But I also see a man who's completely happy with the figure staring back at him.

I try to be happy. I try to face things without regret or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.

I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

You can't really start living until you can live with yourself.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

See, it's not until you start accepting who you are that you can really find success, or more importantly, happiness.

O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.

Once I thought that if you had a house on a hill with a fence and 2.5 baths and 3.5 kids, that was happiness. I naively thought that if I lived in a house like that there was no reason for me to be stressed or depressed, that the things I was experiencing would be untouchable and solved and I would do great.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.

The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iPod and sit on my couch. That's how I unwind.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying. I've made my choice, and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.

It was a fairly normal happy upbringing. Not a lot of money, but a lot of love.

I had such a pure upbringing - my childhood was a really happy time.

But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

Everyone's on their own journey and nothing's going to happen overnight and you're going to have ups and you're going to have downs, but I think that you need to be content with your own journey and find what works for you.