Quotes About Contentment

If I set out to write 'War And Peace' or 'A Suitable Boy,' I'd be miserable.

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

As long as I'm not living out of a suitcase, I'm happy.

What I can't fit into my suitcase is probably something I don't need.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

After I wrote 'The Best Of Times' for my dad and after I completed the '12 Steps Suite' with Dream Theater, I very much felt like I had said everything I wanted to say lyrically.

I'm happy here at Everton. When I decided to come here, I came thinking only in my club, which is Everton, and nothing else. What has to happen next will happen next. I feel comfortable here. I do not know whether my game is more suited to the Premier league or La Liga, but I am very well here.

I can't expect to be playing the lead and romancing heroines, so I'll do what I'm best suited for and I'm doing that happily.

I am better suited to be behind the camera. Frankly, I don't miss being an actor.

I am finally a lady of leisure, and it suits me fine. For the first time in almost 10 decades, I don't have an agenda or a structure to my days.

That's all you do in life: you find your perch, and if it suits you, just carry on. There's nothing Graham Greene about it.

I like being permanently single. It suits me perfectly.

A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy.

Married life suits me.

I feel as though going into middle age really suits me.

If you were going to compare me to a car, I'd be very flattered to be compared to a Vauxhall Astra. Rowan Atkinson would be a Ferrari, I suppose. Or maybe that's Steve Coogan. And Rowan would be an Aston Martin. He's a bit classier than a Ferrari. Or Hugh Grant would be a Ferrari. And I'd be a Vauxhall Astra. That suits me down to the ground.

I never get sullen, sad, or envious, because those emotions will get me nowhere.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

I've had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude.

I may not have made humongous sum of money through acting, but I have enough to lead a stress free life.

I don't know if I'm worth 80m euros, but I don't worry about the sums.

This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.

I don't mind the sun at all, I like it.