Monty Don Quotes

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

I have the nicest life in the world.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

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

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

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.

I find happiness in the tiniest things.

It's a fantastic life I've been living - let's keep it going.

Happiness is never grand.

A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.

He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk — that anything — could give him so much happiness.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.