John Wayne Quotes

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

He that studies his content, wants it.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

There's a significant difference between greed and hunger. When you're greedy, you just want things. That's your only need. But when you're hungry for things, it's a mixture of need and want, which is more logical to me.

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

You're lucky if you reach the point where you go, "OK, I have a wonderful life ...I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what's to complain about?" But I think you have to get there... And it's taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I'm like, "I'm very lucky, I'm lucky, I'm blessed" - all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you're young, you just don't listen.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

My life is better with every year of living it.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I'm old and happy. I've had a good life.

My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.