Art Buchwald Quotes

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

I'm a simple kind of guy, so I just envision myself being happy.

You could take everything off me tomorrow, I'll still be happy. So long as my family are living very close together, that's all that matters, really, for me.

I don't need much to be happy.

The more simple my life is, the happier I am.

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.

I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

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

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

Find joy in the ordinary.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

I have found that the key to being happy - well, one of the keys, anyway - is to be easily amused.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.