Yanni Quotes

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

I live a pretty simple life.

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

I'm fine with just a simple life.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

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

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

I live a very simple life.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.

If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.

I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

How rich, how happy is he who lives in poverty! He lives his days in wisdom, and sleeps in peace. Only he can be really happy, only he is so always!