As for our majority… one is enough.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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

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

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

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

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.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

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

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

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

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

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.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

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

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

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

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

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?

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.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

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

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.