Quotes About Satisfaction

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

Being happy is not the only happiness.

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.