Blake Mycoskie Quotes

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.

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

I don't need much to be happy.

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.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

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.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

I like my life. It's good.

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

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.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.

You can be happy where you are.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

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.

Stuff can't make you happy.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

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