As for our majority… one is enough.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

For greed all nature is too little.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.