Edmund Waller Quotes

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

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.

How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

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

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

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

Peace is its own reward.

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.