Quotes About Contentment

Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp; but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's MasterCard.

All you need is love... and a good cup of coffee.

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the occasional grunted demand for food from a passing teenager.

I don't hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that.

I'm very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

I don't think you are truly successful unless you are a happy person and are happy with your life. I know many people who are professionally successful but miserable.

I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

A lot of people are programmed to think, 'Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.' It's like they want everything. You want your cake, and you want to eat it, too. Even though I guess you're supposed to eat cake, but I never really get that saying.

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.

I'm just happy to do projects I'm passionate about.

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.

I never had a role that I set out for. I always wanted to have a body of work that I'm proud of. Save for two projects, which will never pass my lips, I'm happy with what I've done.

I would be like, 'Oh, my gosh, I wish I could go to prom.' But then I think, 'You know what? A lot of people can't say they've ever done what I do - they'll never have this opportunity.'

We are in a good place. Her name is Crystal Renay. She has much promise. Yes, much promise. Quality.

I don't have a need to promote myself.

If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.

I'm not trying to promote myself. I'm just happy to go about my business.

I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'

I'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit.