Quotes About Contentment

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that's the one thing I'm sure about.

I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.

I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don't really try to act like a rich person, so I don't know what they buy. I didn't really like the stuff I saw, so I'm gonna stick with my humble lifestyle and just keep working out.

I have faith in the idea that there will be another hit, but I'm also totally happy if there's not, because I know that as long as I keep making music that's me, the people who love me for me will stick around. That's all I really care about.

Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

It's a blessing and a curse, 'cause I'm never satisfied, so I continually want to outdo myself. But still, I'm never happy.

It's still my happiest time when I'm eating.