Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

You find happiness where you find it.

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I feel that I've done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

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

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

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

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

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

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