satisfaction with less Quotes

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.

Who lives content with little possesses everything.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.

The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of relativity.

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

He who demands little gets it.

Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.