Forgiveness Quotes - Page 4

If we get everything that we want we will soon want nothing that we get.

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

The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.

What you really value is what you miss not what you have.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

It is not customary to love what one has.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have instead of what you don't have.

Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.

William Shakespeare

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

John Oliver Hobbes

When we cannot get what we love we must love what is within our reach.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.

Marcus Aurelius

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

Anonymous

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Long only for what you have.

The tulip is among flowers what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb the other in its tail.

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

Euripides

Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Pindar

While you fear missing a meal you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

Ken Keyes

If there's no bread cakes are very good.

Spanish Proverb

Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.

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

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

He who limps still walks.

I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.

Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

Margaret Junkin Preston

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson

The end of pain we take as happiness.

Giacomo Leopardi

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Giacomo Leopardi

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

Epicurus

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.

Baltasar Gracián

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Mae West

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has.

Epictetus

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.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few love what they may have.

Ovid

The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

An easy thing O Power Divine To thank thee for these gifts of Thine For summer's sunshine winter's snow For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?

Thomas W. Higginson

People call me an optimist but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or eventually surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever the first of the miracle drugs sulfanilamide saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours if you can appreciate yourself.

Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive be thankful for what you escape.

Anonymous

Even though we can't have all we want we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

Anonymous

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

Ovid

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before second because although they took my purse they did not take my life third because although they took my all it was not much and fourth because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering from positive evil.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Better to suffer than to die.

Jean de La Fontaine

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