Andy Warhol Quotes

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

A little too much is just enough for me.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.