Quotes About Contentment

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

I don't get to be edgy and angry, but the rewards are that I'm generally quite happy with my day. I spend an awful lot of time in a good mood.

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.