Quotes About Contentment

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

I feel great, I'm happy with my look, and that comes with age and feeling confident.

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being

In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.