Quotes About Contentment

Be grateful for what you already have. Set aside the time to take care of yourself, too.

I've always felt that if you pay your bills and can take care of yourself without too much stress, then it's a pretty damn good life.

Don't take for granted things.

Sometimes you take for granted what you have on your own doorstep.

Success is easy to take for granted.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

It takes very little effort to make someone happy.

What excites me is just taking some time to breathe in life. The mundane is very exciting.

I just say 'Amen' a lot. It's just about being grateful and never taking things for granted.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Recognizing your talents doesn't mean believing they're limitless. Accepting your strengths doesn't lead to pride, but instead to humility; you're less likely to resent what others have if you understand your own bounty.

I think it's something you learn over a period of time; you learn to be more comfortable within yourself, appreciative of what you've got and what you haven't, you realise the talents you have and what you can do and you take on the chin the things that you have to. It's part and parcel of growing up.

I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

There is something joyous about not talking.

I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

I wish I were tall, like my friend Lee Kwang Soo.

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.

I just plan on enjoying being tall.

I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.