Quotes About Contentment

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

Life is long if it is full.

Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.

Happiness has a very short half-life.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

If I died right now, my life would be complete.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

Sometimes, we should maybe sit back and look at all we have. It's because of golf and the tour. I mean, this life we lead is unbelievable.

We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventurous person. I don't look for change.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.