Orison Swett Marden Quotes

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

A simple life is its own reward.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

Happiness is found when no one is looking

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it's very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it's quite a miracle.

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.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

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

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

I don't need fighting. It's the cherry on top to this beautiful life I've been given.

To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't.