Quotes About Contentment

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

I can be happy in the private sector, the non-profit sector, or the public sector.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

I don't crave publicity, you know.

By God's grace, I'm not hungry for publicity, God has given me enough to fend for myself.

I don't go running after publicity.

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

I don't punish myself. Life's too short.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished.

We have a new puppy and that's enough! Two babies and three dogs is enough.

It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.

I try and live my life simply and purely.

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.