Pope Francis Quotes

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.'

Material things aren't important to me.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

I know it sounds old-fashioned to say we're too materialistic in the West, but happiness does not derive exclusively from things, and yet we seem to be structuring our whole society around things. I think that's partially why Westerners are joining ISIS and going to Syria. We have lost our way in the West in holding up a vision for humanity that is not exclusively shaped by materialism.

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

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

Happiness has nothing to do with what you have or don't have. Happiness is related to what you are. However many things you may collect, perhaps they may increase your worries, your troubles, but happiness will not increase because of them. Certainly unhappiness will increase with them, but they have no relation to an increase in your happiness.

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Possessions only provide temporary happiness.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff--it's gonna break. You got your biggest, fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It's got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going to go out. Or go to a yacht basin any place in the world. Nobody is smiling, and I'll tell you why. Something broke that morning. The generator's out; the microwave oven doesn't work . . . Things just don't mean happiness.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.