individual contentment Quotes

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

Peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.

There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.

Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.

I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

The greatest gift you can give anyone is to be happy. And we will take that further. The greatest gift you can give to any partner, past, present or future is to be so connected with who you truly are that they are irrelevant to your connection. And when they are irrelevant to your connection, then you are going to have a really good time together.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

World peace begins with inner peace.

I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.