Quotes About Contentment

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.

I'm not a materialistic person, to be honest. I'm all about the energy, man. I never had anything growing up, so I don't know what it means to lose anything.

I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.

I'm so used to my appearance, I don't feel either offended or pleased by it. To be honest, I am not madly interested.

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.

I go to the gym, do my work, go home, switch off. It's just the way I like it, to be honest.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.

I don't know why I bring that calmness, and I'm not really aware of it, to be honest. I just come on, smile, and enjoy the moment. If that brings calmness, then great.

If you're lucky enough to find success at a job that you love then I don't think you have much right to complain, to be honest.

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

I always say I want to leave this world in a better state than when I arrived, and I continue to live by that message. So I'm going to do what I can to make the world a better place but also just make sure that I'm happy as well.

I want to love life.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

I want to love. I want to enjoy life.

I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.

I'm not very ambitious, sorry... I don't get up and think, 'Today, I shall achieve greatness.' It's more, 'Today I might have Marmite on my toast.'

It would be nice to be a piece of toast. Everyone likes a piece of toast, don't they? No one is ever sad when you offer them a piece of toast, and if I could be that to someone, that would be nice.

I don't know what the future holds. All I know is, I'm good today. Real good.

Money for me today does not really matter.

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.