The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The secret to happiness is to admire without desiring.

The secret of happiness is to enjoy the moment, without allowing unhappy memories or fear of the future to shadow the shining present.

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

The first rule of happiness is low expectations

To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down the pursuit of pleasant sensations, not accelerate it.

In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

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.

You let go of the grosser forms of happiness, the grosser strategies for happiness, and get used to more and more refined ones. And they finally take you to the point where there’s no course left but to let go of strategies. All strategies. It’s like painting yourself into a corner. The only way to get out of the corner is not to be anywhere. When you can manage that, you see that what the Buddha taught was right. He really knew what he was talking about. This is the way to true happiness.

The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.