Quotes About Contentment

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I'm not one of those people desperate to get in the ring again.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

I can't remember ever being desperate for money, even when I didn't have any.

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

I'm happy - despite things that might have happened in my life.

We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things together. We always had dessert, even if it was just Jell-O. So, I never knew I was poor.

When the only thing you look forward to in life is lunch, you know you have had your just desserts, and it is time to call it a day.

Money can destroy people. It really can.

Whenever evil is destroyed people are happy. Then what's wrong in depicting positive violence?

No one can buy me. It allows me to devote myself completely to what I do. Knowing that I'm comfortable removes a big burden off my shoulders.

I've never had big diamonds; I never had big cars.

I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

Everything I've done in my life has been dictated by the fact that I like to be home at night and in bed.

I'm in a long-term relationship with Diego Serrano, and I'm very happy. He's the worst influence that I have ever had in my life, and I love him for it.

When you get to that point where you don't have to worry and you don't have to think about it... I'm pretty sure that's the best diet you can be on.

Sometimes I'll feel content dieting - if I could only bottle that feeling!

I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways.

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about whether it's supposed to be cool or sophisticated or show that I have good or bad taste or whatever.

If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.