Jacob Whitesides Quotes

You can be happy where you are.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

I don't need much to be happy.

The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I am completely happy with my life. I love everything about it.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

I like my life. It's good.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

I would like to say now I was very enjoy the life right now.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.'

Contentment is the only real wealth.

I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.