As for our majority… one is enough.

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

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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

Value is what you get.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

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

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

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

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

You can be happy where you are.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

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

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?