Tom Wilkinson Quotes

My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.

Once one feels content about what one has, then humiliation does not arise. If one could never feel content, one would never even get what one wished to have.

Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

I am completely happy with my life. I love everything about it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

It is easy to react if everything is going great.

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

I'm living the best life that I could ever be living.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

I like my life. It's good.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.'

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.