Forgiveness Quotes

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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

Of all the people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

He is poor who does not feel content.

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

He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.

If you want an accounting of your worth count your friends.

I've had an exciting life I married for love and got a little money along with it.

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

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.

He who is content in his poverty is wonderfully rich.

All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

The externals are simply so many props everything we need is within us.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that is content with what he has.

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent but in failing to use that one talent.

Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.

Contentment is worth more than riches.

I figure if I have my health can pay the rent and I have my friends I call it "content."

Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.

If thou covetest riches ask not but for contentment which is an immense treasure.

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

And be content with such things as ye have.

Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible.

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover only the clover isn't good enough.