Isak Dinesen Quotes

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I have no regrets. Not a single one.

Once one feels content about what one has, then humiliation does not arise. If one could never feel content, one would never even get what one wished to have.

My only intention is to be happy and be in a place where I feel wanted.

I have no personal or professional regrets. I really don't.

If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.

Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.

There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

I'm fine with the life I have.

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

I think comfort, stability, and love are the things that really let me be happy. Deep down inside I'm a little boring, I guess.

Regrets? None at all.

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life.

I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

You can be happy where you are.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it's very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it's quite a miracle.

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

I came to love, I came into my own.