Forgiveness Quotes - Page 2

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

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.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

He is rich that is satisfied.

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 who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.

Anonymous

He who is contented is rich.

Lao Tzu

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.

The Panchatantra

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.

Man never has what he wants because what he wants is everything.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Walter Savage Landor

He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much.

Francis Beaumont

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

William Shenstone

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

Alexander Smith

If you would but exchange places with the other fellow how much more you could appreciate your own position.

Victor E. Gardner

We should learn by reflection on the misfortunes of others that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.

Thomas Fitzosborne

Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.

Ancient Persian saying

When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Socrates

Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The covetous man is always poor.

Claudian

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

He has enough who is contented with little.

Anonymous

There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.

Mary Jane Sherfey

More than enough is too much.

Anonymous

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

Augusta Gregory

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

Horace

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

Epicurus

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

Euripides

Enough is as good as a feast.

There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

Homer

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

William Ralph Inge

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.

Benjamin Franklin

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.

Too much is unwholesome.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.

Nothing in excess.

Solon

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Aeschylus

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

Publilius Syrus

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

Channing Pollock

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

Jean Francois Regnard

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy though he is master of the world.

Epicurus

How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

Julius Charles Hare

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