Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too—maybe even yours.

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

La felicidad es el deseo de repetir.

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

The French have a song they like to sing, "Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux?" (What are you waiting for in order to be happy?) You can be happy right here and right

Why wander all over the world looking for something you already have? You are already the richest person on Earth.

Happiness can be attained by letting go, including letting go of your ideas about happiness.

True happiness isn't found in success, money, fame, or power. True happiness should be found in the here and the now. With that kind of insight you can truly relax.

When we go home to the present moment, we understand there are so many conditions of happiness that we don't need to go running after yet another one. We already have enough conditions to be happy. Happiness is entirely possible right in the here and now. The

Part of the beauty of the monastic life lies in the ability to live simply with few desires and to consume only what you need.