Karl Pilkington Quotes

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

I grew up with nothing, and I know that I don't need anything to be happy. We were wearing second-hand clothing and eating leftovers, and I was so happy. Five-star hotels and private pick-ups hasn't changed that.

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.