Adam Yauch Quotes

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

I h a v e a l l t h a t I r e q u e s t e d and I do not want what I haven't got. I have learned this from my mother ; see how happy she has made me. I will take this road much further though I know not where it takes me.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

I've realised I can be happy.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

Happiness is an inside job.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

Most disciplines invite us to more mindfulness, and more contentment. Not by consuming more externally, but by harvesting more from within, and by sharing more without. Neurosciences and behavioural sciences increasingly corroborate this ancient wisdom - joy can come from giving, and unlimited happiness from bonhomie.

Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day

If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.