Rajneesh Quotes

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

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

We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

We would be happier with what we have if we weren't so unhappy about what we don't' have

Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

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.