Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

I always want more.

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.

Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.

I'm in a happy place. I'm very at peace with who I am and what I'm doing and the people around me, so I think I'm probably most ambitious at where I am.

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Happiness is an inside job.

The more you have, the more you want L'appetit vient en mangeant

When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?

There's a significant difference between greed and hunger. When you're greedy, you just want things. That's your only need. But when you're hungry for things, it's a mixture of need and want, which is more logical to me.

Know your own happiness.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.