Quotes About Contentment

I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but I've made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, but enough for me. I think actually being able to pay my rent and eat and perform is enough, and I did that for many years. Then I had some good years in there, too, where I made pretty good money.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.

Whatever the reasons that I turn things down, I'm always happy when there's a good result, and I can enjoy it as a movie, you know? I don't feel like, 'Oh man, that was really good. I should have done it.' You have to make the decisions you have to make, whether it has to do with your family or repeating a character or whatever it is.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry.

We grew up in a small house with four bedrooms. I shared a bedroom with three brothers. But I enjoy the way that I was brought up. It kept me hungry. It kept me humble.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.

I have been very fortunate to see some very clearly excellent players play well to the very ends of their career, where they opted not to play anymore. I'm talking about Adrian Beltre. I'm talking about Torii Hunter. I'm talking about David Ortiz, Chipper Jones, Derek Jeter. These are players who decided, 'You know, I've had enough. That's good.'

When I was young, I was in a hurry to live. And now I'm just not in a hurry.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.

I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

I don't really hype myself up with fancy things.

I have never felt the need to get agitated or hyper about anything in life.

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

I have a great family, and I have a great home, husband, and son. So I think that's probably all anyone ever needs anyway. Everything else is the icing on top of the cake to be quite honest.

I can't imagine a more ideal life.