Quotes About Contentment

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

You have what is right in front of you. You survive and you have your family. That's the whole world.

I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.

I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.

I suspect that perfect happiness is not possible for me. I suppose if I was ever selected for eternal life - the moment I was informed - that would bring me the closest.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

People know what 'Hedwig' is now, and that's wonderful. It's not the same as being swamped for being on 'The Big Bang Theory,' but it's much more comfortable.

There are a lot of famous people who started out with us and became stars and I wouldn't swap my life with theirs for one second.

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

I know a lot of people think L.A. and they see a picture in their head, but those people obviously don't know me, because I sit on a couch every day. That's my idea of a good time - just being in a sweat suit.

I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.

I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don't need much... a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it's very easy.

If Bernie has seven sweaters, that's three too many for him.

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

As soon as I get into my house, I put on sweats and pyjamas.

I'm rather happy with sweats, slippers and no make-up on.

I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

It was a huge move for me to leave Sweden, because I was really happy there. It was a club we thought we could carry on developing and try to win the league with. And my family were really settled.

How sweet it is!

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.