C. S. Lewis Quotes

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

I'm just happy. I'm just me right now.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.

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

Be satisfied with what you have.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Happiness is total and complete satisfaction with yourself

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.

Be deeply satisfied and ready for more.

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

I am happy wherever I get success.

Money is not going to bring me happiness.

I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.

I'm really happy with the way I am, and I've got a fantastic family and a great life, and I don't need anything else.

Happiness is state of mind.

I'm sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.

I don't need much to be happy.

I don't have any regrets at all.

I think when you're happy with yourself, that's what matters.

The thing I take great comfort in and what I think is cool about the process is that I know in my heart that I gave it everything I had back then. That helps me sleep at night. I still feel proud and happy.