Quotes About Contentment

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family.

I don't believe in organised happiness.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.

I love it here in New Orleans.

I don't have the habit of wearing ornaments.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.

I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives.

The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy.

I need my outdoors, my comfort.

I'm not really concerned with the outer success.

Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

I'm not one of those people to outgrow my initial blessings.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I'm really happy with everything that I've been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I've been blessed to have.