Alec Waugh Quotes

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

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

Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.

From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

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.

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

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

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

I am happy wherever I get success.