Quotes About Contentment

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Everyone wants to be happy at the end of the day. If we can pursue what we really want to do, we don't get bored of life.

I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.

I learned to really pursue things I really wanted. If it is just for the money, that's not going to work out. You have to like it.

We all mouth the fact that material possessions don't make you happy but we still pursue them.

I didn't pursue happiness at all. I've never pursued it. I wasn't brought up to pursue it.

In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.

There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin.

I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn't happy, because there's no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit - making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.

I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.

I never pushed to be a star. I didn't want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do the music and leave.

I never pushed the envelope of wanting people to know me, or be on the covers of magazines. I just want to enjoy what I'm doing.

Like every mother, I also want Alia and Shaheen to be happy. Whatever they do, they should feel satisfied doing it. I'm not a paranoid mother who pushes them to settle down.

You have to be grateful for what you have, but you're always pushing further.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

I felt incomplete. I was always happy but I felt incomplete and that I needed to be pushing through.

I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

If you're happy in a relationship it puts everything into perspective really.

I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt with a putter' because I have no reason to complain. Even on days when you don't like what you see in the paper, I have no reason to complain.