Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

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

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

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

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

He who is contented is rich.

I have everything I need, so there are no blanks left unfilled.

One always wants more when things work out.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Love what you have. And then go for what you want.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.