Eckhart Tolle Quotes

You can be happy where you are.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.

I don't need much to be happy.

The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.

I'm comfortable with the life I have.

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

Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

I like my life. It's good.

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

I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!

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.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I'm fine with the life I have.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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