Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

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

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

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

I'm living the best life that I could ever be living.

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

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

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

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

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.

I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.

Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

I have everything I could ever want in life.

I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.

I have everything I need, so there are no blanks left unfilled.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.