Quotes About Contentment

The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

In my own personal life, it's been pretty hard navigating love, and so I've found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.

I wish I could come home to a life that looks like a TV show. I wish I could see my television family waiting for me, where no one fights and no one screams, no one lies and no one leaves.

I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.'

In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

Every day, I like to wake up and remind myself to be grateful of the simple things.

I'm at peace with what I'm doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.

I don't wake up and say, 'Gee, it's a nice day, and I'm a legend.'

If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they don't dread... I'm very lucky.

To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.

I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must be happy.' But then again, maybe I'm in denial.

After living out of a suitcase for years, it's a feeling of peace to wake up in the night and know where I am.

When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

I'm blessed. I wake up happy every day.

I wake up every day with a smile on my face.