Quotes About Contentment

I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.

I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.

The only thing I've ever wanted in my life is to be a mom and a wife.

I'm basically a happy person. I'm content with my life and my wife and my family. But you do reach a point where you start to question the absolutes that are supposedly out there, and you realize that there simply are no absolutes.

I'm a family guy, I've got a beautiful wife, a beautiful son, and I couldn't be happier.

My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.

For us, we're homebodies. My wife and I like to be at home with family.

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

I don't think there are many jobs that would have tempted me away from Fulham, to be perfectly honest.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.

When people are living from passion, they tend to be fulfilled, happy, healthy, and love everyone around them.

A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.

I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're not getting what you want, and you're always striving and looking ahead instead of just being in the moment.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

I feel comfortable on and off the court, happy in my own skin, just really comfortable with the way I'm playing my tennis.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.

At some point, I thought that, as I got older, I'd come to terms with a lot of things. I'd solve some big problems, and eventually I'd become content. It's almost more depressing to think that the older you get, the more your problems multiply.

I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.