Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

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

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

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

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

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

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Money buys you nice things but it doesn't make you happy.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

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.