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To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There read more
To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When read more
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a read more
If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for read more
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. read more
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire read more
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
