That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Marquis de Condorcet
The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves, and to suffice for our own happiness. Those, which depend on ourselves, are the only pleasures a wise man will count on: for nothing is ours which another may deprive us of. Hence the inestimable value of intellectual pleasures. Ever in our power, always leading us to something new, never cloying, we ride, serene and sublime, above the concerns of this mortal world, contemplating truth and nature, matter and motion, the laws which bind up their existence, and that eternal being who made and bound them up by these laws. Let this be our employ. Leave the bustle and tumult of society to those who have not talents to occupy themselves without them.
Thomas Jefferson
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca
If you're patting yourself on the back about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.
Lou Holtz
How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than 60 years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Smith
He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.
Thomas Secker
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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