Epictetus Quotes

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work.

Money can't buy happiness.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Money cannot buy happiness.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

My world has been quite rich in my life, and I've been happy. I've no regrets.

I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.

The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.

I have everything I could ever want in life.

I enjoy the riches of life.

We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.