Quotes About Contentment

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

I will do something, time to time, with motor racing. But I'll never go back, I think, to drive full-time because I've lost that anger, that desire.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

I'm very good at compartmentalising my life. I did motor-racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I did power-boat racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I had such a good run at the BBC. I had a hell of a CV with arguably the greatest broadcasting organisation in the world. But I've never missed it since.

I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.

It's, you know, kind of nice to be under the radar.

The most radical thing that I can do is share how happy I am.

I would rather hang out in my house with a couple of friends than go and rage all night.

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

Someone accused me of having 'gone off the rails' but I've never been on them hence the success and happiness I enjoy on a daily basis.

I like rain, actually.

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.

My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch.

For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

Small places intrigue me. Whenever I tried moving to a larger city, I ran back to the hills.

I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.

I don't have any furniture.

We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.

I'm not a gadget freak.

I'm not one of those people that needs to have all of the new gadgets or wants any of that.