John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

I don't need much to be happy.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

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

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.

You don't have to have more in order to be happy.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

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

I'm just happy. I'm just me right now.

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

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.

You can be happy where you are.

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.