Ralph Marston Quotes

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

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

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

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

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

I don't need much to be happy.

I just see what's in front of me. That's what I'm happy with.

I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

You don't have to have more in order to be happy.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

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

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

The big thing I've discovered, the big secret, is that it's all about how happy you are. It's the ultimate thing. People forget your flaws and imperfections if they see you're happy.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

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.'

You can be happy where you are.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.