Quotes by Authors - Page 176

He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.
Anonymous
Nor need we power or splendor wide hall or lordly dome the good the true the tender-these form the wealth of home.
Sarah Josepha Hale
He is rich that is satisfied.
Thomas Fuller
To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount that man isn't rich.
Mark Twain
I've had an exciting life I married for love and got a little money along with it.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.
Thomas Fuller
When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Ann Landers
Man never has what he wants because what he wants is everything.
C. F. Ramuz
Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.
Louis L'Amour
If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
Julius Charles Hare
The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.
Christian Bovee
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
William Ralph Inge
More than enough is too much.
Anonymous
There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.
Mary Jane Sherfey
He has enough who is contented with little.
Anonymous
A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.
Hannah Farnham Lee
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern
One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance chaos to order confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast a house into a home a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
Jeremy Taylor
Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.
Anonymous
The beginning of men's rebellion against God was and is the lack of a thankful heart.
Francis Schaeffer
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W.T. Purkiser
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most it is not he who gives alms or is most eminent for temperance chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
William Law
Jesus please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
Susan L. Lenzkes
Jesus please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
Susan L. Lenzkes
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.
Nancy Hale
So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.
Booth Tarkington
God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?
William A. Ward
Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.
Gwyn Thomas
The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.
Roy L. Smith
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
G.K. Chesterton
There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
Thomas Fuller
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
Marya Mannes
There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.
Elizabeth Bowen
Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.
André Gide
Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.
Joseph Fort Newton
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes
While you fear missing a meal you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.
Dan Millman
Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.
Thomas Sprat
Long only for what you have.
André Gide
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
Anonymous
Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
John Oliver Hobbes
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
It is not customary to love what one has.
Anatole France
May we never let the things we can't have or don't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
Richard L. Evans
What you really value is what you miss not what you have.
Jorge Luis Borges
Enjoy the successes that you have and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
Patty Sheehan
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
Margaret Junkin Preston
I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.
Sydney Smith