Giordano Bruno Quotes

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

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

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

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

When you give your best, you can't ask for more.

I feel that if I retire today, I've done enough. I've achieved everything in comedy... I feel I don't need anything else. It's already built.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.

The meaning of life is happiness.

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

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

When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

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

...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.

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

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.