John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

I'm happy and I have a great life.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

I'd rather have happiness than money.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.

If you have fun, if you enjoy life, I think that's the most important thing. And if I have that, and I am No. 1 in the world, looks like everything is good.

At the end of the day, when you go to bed, you should be content and happy.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.

I don't want to get rich - just live good.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

Don't confuse comfort with happiness.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.