Charles Bukowski Quotes

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.