The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything

Want Nothing

Be content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

—LAO TZU

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

—SENECA

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

—STEVEN WRIGHT