Quotes About Contentment

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

Here in France, what we love is Life. And all the pleasures that go with it.

I think in a way that's part of getting older, appreciating the simple pleasures of being in the garden.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine.

I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

Anna would be just as happy with me if I were a plumber. As a matter of fact, when she married me, I was working at a bank and living at home. I didn't move out until I was 29!

I'm a very happy man. I've seen how bad it can get, and I'm sure it could get worse if I let it, but all that made me appreciate where I am. Plus, I'm married to a very hot woman who got away.

I feel good with a crisp hundy in my pocket.

I don't think what's in my pocketbook matters.

I am pretty pleased. I will be on the Olympic podium, so you can't be more happy.

There's always room for growth. I feel like I'll never get to the point where I'm 100 percent happy with where I am with my career.

I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.