Fame, money and pleasure, sought to fill an inner emptiness, bring a brief satisfaction that never lasts and is never enough.

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• Being content with little is a great good, and those who least need luxury enjoy it most EPEpicurusc. 341–270 BCE
• The struggle toward the heights is itself enough to fill a heart; the condemned labourer must be imagined happy ACAlbert Camusc. 1942
• When fortunate people find too little enjoyment in life, the cause is generally that they care for nobody but themselves JMJohn Stuart Millc. 1861
• The world worth seeking is one built on the impulse to create rather than the desire to keep or seize possessions BRBertrand Russellc. 1918
• Happiness that needs intoxication of any kind is spurious; satisfying happiness comes with the fullest use of one's faculties BRBertrand Russellc. 1930

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