Mitch Albom Quotes

As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

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

You can be happy where you are.

Stuff can't make you happy.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

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

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

I don't need much to be happy.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

Be satisfied with what you have.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

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

He that studies his content, wants it.

The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.