Hugh Miller Quotes

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

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

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

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

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

Success is.... happiness. Is that too Deepak Chopra?

Contentment: The smother of invention.

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

He that's content hath enough.

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

Hope is itself a species of happiness.