John Eldredge Quotes

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

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.

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.

Once one feels content about what one has, then humiliation does not arise. If one could never feel content, one would never even get what one wished to have.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

Be satisfied with what you have.

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

I've got everything I wanted so I'm just happy.

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.