Quotes About Contentment

You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

I kept begging and begging for a car when I turned 16. My dad got me a 1971 Chevy pickup with no air conditioning and no radio!

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

I'm not picky. When I'm hungry, I eat.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I haven't finished or haven't read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

I just want a home anywhere. I want my own home and my own pillow!

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.

As probably is known, I did not want my husband to join politics. He was not keen to join politics. He was very happy as a pilot.

I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.

We wake up and pinch ourselves most days.

When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

I care more about my pipe than about fame and honors.

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

I have a very easy life, I can wander around.

Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.