Quotes About Contentment

If you rode to my mother's house, it's still a two-bedroom house, one floor. She still drives the same Toyota Corolla that she drove for the last three years and is still trying to meet ends. So for them to say I received $30,000 or whatever the case is, I definitely don't think that's enough to sell out myself and my family.

True wealth is not measured by how much money you've got in the bank or how many toys you've got. Some of the happiest people in the world don't have a crying quarter, but they've got all the things that mean a lot to them.

I have a few toys. But I live very simply.

I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it.

I pay my rent and my bills and I buy food and toys for my dog and that's it.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.

I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.

I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I love being who I am. And I would not trade it for anything.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.

Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.

I'm not going to be a guy that says, 'Oh I want to get traded' and then go to a situation where I'm not happy.

I wouldn't have traded my career path for anything.

Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.

My life is together, both professionally and socially.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.