Quotes About Contentment

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they're ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their

Austerity has always made me happy, and its opposite, miserable. I find it strange that, knowing this, I should so often have inflicted upon myself the nausea of over-indulgence, and had to fight off the black dogs of satiety. Human beings, as Pascal points out, are peculiar in that they avidly pursue ends they know will bring them no satisfaction; gorge themselves with food which cannot nourish and with pleasures which cannot please. I am a prize example.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did, in fact, they admired it.

Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.

The measure of success is not by opulence but by happiness

Success is the moon and happiness is moonlight.

If you try to find success in fame or in things, you will fail. If you find happiness is the process you will be a success.

Success is the relentless pursuit of joy.

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy and the make the most of where you are.

Happiness is not found in success, but it is found in the essence and byproduct of success.

Inner peace has no correlation with success or failure—winning or losing.