Quotes About Contentment

I grew up in a happy household.

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.

I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Maybe Martha Stewart could do it; to me those two things aren't compatible, but I know our children will grow up with a feeling that home is a place of comfort.

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to be 'alright', to have enough money to be able to live on, to go to the cinema when I wanted to, and buy the books I wanted to read.

I am a full time mother and a housewife. I don't think I need anything else to do.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

Every man deserves a castle; doesn't matter how big your castle is.

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

I don't care about how much other actors get.

Your life shouldn't necessarily cost exactly how much money you make.

I'm still doing what I've always wanted to do, and how big it gets or how much money I make for it or how popular I am in the public's eye is really not that important, even though it's hard to let that go.

It doesn't matter how much money you make; it's where you feel happy.

Some people, no matter how much money they have, they want to keep it for themselves.

There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.

I think it's time for me to move away from basketball. It was a huge part of my life and gave me pretty much everything I desired but there comes a time when you just can't take it anymore.

I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

I already am very satisfied by my career. It has been long, diverse and hugely rewarding.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.