Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

When you've got everything you need, why complicate it?

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

The less you have, the more you enjoy.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

Simplicity makes me happy.

I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

The simplest of simplest things makes me happy. I love small gestures and nature in life.

I grew up with nothing, and I know that I don't need anything to be happy. We were wearing second-hand clothing and eating leftovers, and I was so happy. Five-star hotels and private pick-ups hasn't changed that.

I'm fine with just a simple life.

A simple life is its own reward.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.

my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.

Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.

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

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.