Andrew Weil Quotes

I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

I'm fine with the life I have.

You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

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

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

You can be happy where you are.

If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

Contentment does not come from achievement.

I have nothing to complain about.

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.