Pema Chodron Quotes

The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.

People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

The tools of 'The Prosperous Heart' help people to embrace the life that they actually have, where they often find that they already have 'enough.'

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

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

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 sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

I never had everything I wanted, but I never wanted for anything.

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

I appreciate all that I am and all that I have. Stop focusing on what you do not have, and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you are and all that you do have.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.