Rajneesh Quotes

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

You can get money, and you can win awards, and you can be on magazines, but that's not going to make you happy.

For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

By worrying as little as possible about fame.

Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

Contentment is natural wealth.

Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff--it's gonna break. You got your biggest, fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It's got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going to go out. Or go to a yacht basin any place in the world. Nobody is smiling, and I'll tell you why. Something broke that morning. The generator's out; the microwave oven doesn't work . . . Things just don't mean happiness.

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.

It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.