Quotes About Contentment

Everybody wants to receive a certain amount of satisfaction from whatever employment they're involved in. That doesn't mean happiness, though. And then, if you don't have happiness, that's not success.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content.

I love what I do; I love what is being given to me. I am comfortable with it, and I love the way it has been received.

In 2011, when I was in Corinthians, I received an offer from Russia that offered me to win 10 times more than in Brazil and I answered: 'What I can do with five, I can do with two.'

I'm not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I've never received that, and that's not ever going to happen. So I'm fine with what I have, I make good money, and I'm happy about it.

Me, personally, I don't really care about as far as being the highest-paid receiver, man. It's a number.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

I like my privacy. I was completely okay when people didn't recognise me.

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

I don't need any more recognition. I don't need any more money. I don't need any legacy.

If I become a European champion, I don't care whether I have absolute recognition or not.

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

I like the fact that my work in Ghost is famous, and people know it, and we have our crowd. But I am not as antsy about getting recognized on the street as I might have once been.

I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.

I never knew much about business. But I've been made happy. The TV and commercials have been very fortunate for me and my career. And Atlantic Records has always been wonderful to me. I don't think I could have chosen a better record company.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

I'm happy to be recording and singing live. I have a great family, and a great bunch of people always come and see me sing. What more does a man need?