Quotes About Contentment

I grew up not worrying about my looks.

I don't think I'm going to look back and wish that I spent more time worrying about my muscles or fat or whatever.

There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.

If you're unhappy with what you've had over the last 50 years, you have an unfortunate misappraisal of life. It's as good as it gets, and it's very likely to get worse.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.

I have quit chewing tobacco and don't touch any lager beer, and I don't speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person.

Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.

The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Only if you love yourself, only if you're happy with yourself and only if you know your own worth will you ever be happy.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

You can have everything in the world, but if you aren't happy within yourself, it's not worth it.

Stressing out over how you look, what you're wearing, or when you're getting home is not worth it.