We make crazy money and we’re getting to live out our dreams. And then you’re complaining, and anyone listening is rightfully thinking, 'You’re a jackass.'
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Here’s the other thing that was really important to me that no one thinks about. I never made a decision in my career based on money. Not once. I’m not going to lie, it’s nice to have money. But I’ve also not had money, and I’m okay with that. We wanted to keep my body of work. All I ever wanted was…
Tom Ripley: Ask me what I'd change about this moment. Peter: What would you change about this moment? Tom Ripley: Nothing.
His mind, never content with shallow satisfactions, crept to the brink of knowing. What kind of power was it if it would never be used?
Above all things, to be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.
Don’t seek happiness - Happiness is like an orgasm: if you think about it too much, it goes away. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy, and you might find you get some as a side effect. We didn’t evolve to be constantly content. Contented Australopithecus Afarensis got eaten before passing o…
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.
Nobody leaves a negotiation happy.
— Alice O'Neill, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.com
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
You know you are on the right track when you become uninterested in looking back.
I could learn photography. That could be something to want. I could photograph children. I could have my own children. I would give them yellow roses. And if they got too loud, I would just put them some place quiet. Put them in the oven. And I would kiss them every day, and tell them you don't have…
I'm happy with the way that I look and I don't need an arm to be beautiful.
You want things, and you're not content until you get them.
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.
Contentment is the only real wealth.
I got rhythm I got music I got my man/girl Who could ask for anything more?
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time…