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The advantages of a losing team: (i) There is everything to hope for and nothing to fear  (2.) Defeats do not disturb one's sleep. (3) An occasional victory is a surprise and a delight. (4) There is no danger of any club passing you. (5) You are not asked fifty times a day  "What was the score?"  people take it for granted that you lost.
— Elmer E. Bates
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
— Golda Meir
The difficulties  hardships and trials of life  the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly  and teach self-reliance.
— William Matthews
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head  and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
— Saint Basil
You will never be the person you can be if pressure  tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
— Dr. James G. Bilkey
Some troubles  like a protested note of a solvent debtor  bear interest.
— Honore de Balzac
Failure changes for the better  success for the worse.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
— Oscar Wilde
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself  but the estimate of the loss  that troubles us.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Let me embrace thee  sour adversity  for wise men say it is the wisest course.
— William Shakespeare
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity  for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite  which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.
— Robert Nathan
A Christian could even give thanks for Hell  because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.
— Anonymous
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
— W. Clement Stone
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
— Maurice Setter
If you count all your assets  you always show a profit.
— Robert Quillen
Too happy would you be  did ye but know your own advantages!
— Virgil
Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.
— W. N. Rieger
If we go down into ourselves  we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
— Simone Weil
Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.
— William Saroyan
Keep a grateful journal. Every night  list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
There is no wealth but life.
— John Ruskin
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
— Abraham Heschel
Life may be hard  but it's also wonderful.
— Small Change
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly  despairingly  acutely miserable  racked with sorrow  but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
— Agatha Christie
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love  and to work  and to play and to look up at the stars.
— Henry Van Dyke
To be alive  to be able to see  to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
— Arthur Rubinstein
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust  death  death  I am alive!
— Don Marquis
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
— Emily Dickinson
However mean your life is  meet it and live it  do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.
— Henry David Thoreau
Life is the first gift  love is the second  and understanding the third.
— Marge Piercy
To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .
— Elbert Hubbard
For one mother  joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone  while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.
— Eileen Stukane
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Sunshine is delicious  rain is refreshing  wind braces us up  snow is exhilarating  there is really no such thing as bad weather  only different kinds of good weather.
— John Ruskin
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
— Horace
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded  I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.
— Anne Lamott
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun  to have lived light in the spring  to have loved  to have thought  to have done?
— Matthew Arnold
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera  and grace before the play and pantomime  and grace before I open a book  and grace before sketching  painting  swimming  fencing  boxing  walking  playing  dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
— G. K. Chesterton
Thank God for dirty dishes  they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry  we're eating pretty well. With home  and health  and happiness  we shouldn't want to fuss  For by this stack of evidence  God's very good to us.
— Anonymous
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
— Georges Duhamel
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.
— Julian Simon
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.
— Dale Carnegie
Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.
— Izaak Walton
Happiness lies  first of all  in health.
— George William Curtis
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
— John Locke
Health is the vital principle of bliss.
— James Thomson
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.
— Alphonse Karr
Considering the fortune you might have lost  you'll have to admit you're rich already.
— John Rothchild
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.
— Matthew Henry
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
— Joseph Joubert
A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.
— Joseph Addison
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
Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
— Thomas Fuller
It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.
— Bertolt Brecht
He who limps still walks.
— Stanislaw Lee
I have gout  asthma  and seven other maladies  but am otherwise very well.
— Sydney Smith
Luckily  I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
— Joseph Joubert
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
— Margaret Junkin Preston
We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.
— Latin proverb
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
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
— Plautus
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him  than what it has denied.
— Baltasar Gracian
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.
— Patty Sheehan
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.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Anatole France
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have  instead of what you don't have.
— Woody Allen
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.
— French proverb
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.
— Andre Gide
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.
— French proverb
Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.
— Euripides
Greediness of getting more  deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.
— Thomas Sprat
While you fear missing a meal  you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.
— Dan Millman
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.
— J. Petit-Senn
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
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
— Joseph Roux
We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.
— Ken Keyes
Welcome everything that comes to you  but do not long for anything else.
— Andre Gide
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested  compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
— George Santayana
If there is a sin against life  it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another  and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
— Albert Camus
Mankind  by the perverse depravity of their nature  esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed  and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
— Francois de Fenelon
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted  when you find it taken for granted  you are unnerved.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not  remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
— Epicurus
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
— Josh Billings
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
— Mignon McLaughlin
No man can be satisfied with his attainment  although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.
— Frank Swinnerton
Life is a progress from want to want  not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
— Samuel Johnson
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
— John Steinbeck
There must be more to life than having everything.
— Maurice Sendak
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
— Marya Mannes
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us  but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
— Benjamin Franklin
There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
— Thomas Fuller
If we get everything that we want  we will soon want nothing that we get.
— Vernon Luchies
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.
— Roy L. Smith
Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.
— Burmese proverb
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
You can't appreciate home until you've left it  money till it's spent  your wife till she's joined a woman's club  nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
— O. Henry
Birds sing after a storm  why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
— Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Oh  my friend  it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?
— William A. Ward
So long as we can lose any happiness  we possess some.
— Booth Tarkington
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands  but let it go  and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
— Maxim Gorky
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
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
— English proverb
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
— G. K. Chesterton
Jesus  please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
— Susan L. Lenzkes
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode  until we drive away.
— Emily Dickinson
Generally the man with a good wife  or the woman with a good husband  or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.
— James Douglas
Jesus  please teach me to appreciate what I have  before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
— Susan L. Lenzkes
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who  nevertheless  set aside a day of thanksgiving.
— H. U. Westermayer
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
Not what we say about our blessings  but how we use them  is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
— W. T. Purkiser
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies  but the thankful heart... will find  in every hour  some heavenly blessings.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.
— Maurice Dametz
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you " that would suffice.
— Meister Eckhart
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
— Estonian proverb
The beginning of men's rebellion against God was  and is  the lack of a thankful heart.
— Francis Schaeffer
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue  but the parent of all other virtues.
— Cicero
Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.
— Anonymous
The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity  safeguard  liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
— Jeremy Taylor
One of life's gifts is that each of us  no matter how tired and downtrodden  finds reasons for thankfulness.
— J. Robert Maskin
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
— Elizabeth Carter
Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.
— Comtesse Diane
Appreciation is yeast  lifting ordinary to extraordinary.
— Mary-Ann Petro
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
— Jean Baptiste Massieu
One can never pay in gratitude  one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
— Gladys Browyn Stern
A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.
— Hannah Farnham Lee
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
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
— William Blake
Enough is as good as a feast.
— John Heywood
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.
— Samuel Johnson
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave  let him know he has enough.
— Walt Whitman
Too much is unwholesome.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
This only grant me  that my means may lie too low for envy  for contempt too high.
— Abraham Cowley
Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
— Hosea Ballou
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.
— Lee Segall
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.
— Donald Horban
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
— Kin Hubbard
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy  though he is master of the world.
— Epicurus
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires  rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
— John Stuart Mill
How few are our real wants  and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
— Julius Charles Hare
Of all the people in the world  those who want the most are those who have the most.
— David Grayson
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
— Robert Herrick
If you desire many things  many things will seem but a few.
— Benjamin Franklin
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired  but by controlling the desire.
— Epictetus
How many things there are which I do not want.
— Socrates
Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared  in whatever situation he is  therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.
— Timothy Dwight
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.
— Lucretius
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.
— Louis L'Amour
Man never has what he wants  because what he wants is everything.
— C. F. Ramuz
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.
— Ronald Reagan
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.
— Ann Landers
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.
— Thomas Fuller
He is poor who does not feel content.
— Japanese proverb
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
— Sara Teasdale
He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.
— French proverb
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
— Marlene Dietrich
If you want an accounting of your worth  count your friends.
— Merry Browne
I've had an exciting life  I married for love and got a little money along with it.
— Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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.
— Mark Twain
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
— Eleonora Duse
My friends are my estate.
— Emily Dickinson
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
He is rich that is satisfied.
— Thomas Fuller
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.
— Joyce A. Myers
All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.
— The Panchatantra
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
— Anonymous
No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
— Corra May Harris
So many of us define ourselves by what we have  what we wear  what kind of house we live in  and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf  a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.
— Linda Henley
The externals are simply so many props  everything we need is within us.
— Etty Hillesum
He is not rich that possesses much  but he that is content with what he has.
— Anonymous
One well-cultivated talent  deepened and enlarged  is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
— William Matthews
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost  he need never regret his limited ability.
— Cicero
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
— William Hazlitt
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.
— Gamaliel Bradford
I may not amount to much  but at least I am unique.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it  he fulfills his destiny.
— Joseph Joubert
The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent  but in failing to use that one talent.
— Edgar Watson Howe
Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.
— Greek proverb
Contentment is worth more than riches.
— German proverb
I figure if I have my health  can pay the rent and I have my friends  I call it "content."
— Lauren Bacall
Be content with what thou hast received  and smooth thy frowning forehead.
— Hafez
If thou covetest riches  ask not but for contentment  which is an immense treasure.
— Sa'di
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
— Nicolas Boileau
My crown is called content  a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
— William Shakespeare
It is right to be contented with what we have  never with what we are.
— Mackintosh
Be content with your lot  one cannot be first in everything.
— Aesop
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low  but above contempt  may be high enough to be happy.
— Sir Thomas Browne
True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous  and it is rare.
— G. K. Chesterton
Poor and content is rich  and rich enough.
— William Shakespeare
And be content with such things as ye have.
— Bible
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
— Marcus Aurelius
We are never content with our lot.
— Jean de la Fontaine
Until you make peace with who you are  you'll never be content with what you have.
— Doris Mortman
True contentment depends not upon what we have  a tub was large enough for Diogenes  but a world was too little for Alexander.
— Charles Caleb Colton
To be content with little is difficult  to be content with much  impossible.
— Anonymous
Reflect upon your present blessings  of which every man has many  not on your past misfortunes  of which all men have some.
— Charles Dickens
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear  But  grateful  take the good I find  The best of now and here.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
— Colette
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?
— Lillian Hellman
There are men who are happy without knowing it.
— Vauvenargues
We are all of us richer than we think we are.
— Michel de Montaigne
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover  only the clover isn't good enough.
— Bertolt Brecht
I am convinced  the longer I live  that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.
— Mary Todd Lincoln
Life is hard. Next to what?
— Anonymous
Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world  so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
— Stephen Sondheim
It made me gladsome to be getting some education  it being like a big window opening.
— Mary Webb
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
— Mae West
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive  it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
— Pearl Bailey
In the country of the blind  the one-eyed man is king.
— Michael Apostolius
Be satisfied  and pleased with what thou art  Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part  Enjoy the present hour  be thankful for the past  And neither fear  nor wish  the approaches of the last.
— Martial
No one is satisfied with his fortune  or dissatisfied with his intellect.
— Antoinette Deshouliere
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
God pardons like a mother  who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Good  to forgive  Best  to forget.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
— Anonymous
His heart was as great as the world  but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bear and forbear.
— Epictetus
Forgive us our trespasses  as we forgive them that trespass against us.
— Bible
Forgive others often  yourself never.
— Syrus
It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.
— Peter von Winter
Fortune makes him fool  whom she makes her darling.
— Sir Francis Bacon
It is fortune  not wisdom  that rules man's life.
— Cicero
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
— Anonymous
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.
— Homer
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time  it's ten to one if they hang long together.
— Douglas Jerrold
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
— Livy
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
— Sallust
O fortune  fortune! all men call thee fickle.
— William Shakespeare
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which  taken at the flood  leads on to fortune.
— William Shakespeare
A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams.
— Russian proverb
Frailty  thy name is woman!
— William Shakespeare
An amiable weakness.
— R. B. Sheridan
Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
— Anonymous
France  freed from that monster  Bonaparte  must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one  and the first choice of all not under those ties.
— Thomas Jefferson
Ye sons of France  awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children  wives and grandsires hoary  Behold their tears and hear their cries!
— Rouget de Lisle
France always has plenty men of talent  but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
— Napoleon
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
— Samuel Bowles
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not enough to succeed  a friend must fail.
— La Rochefoucauld
A friend in power is a friend lost.
— Henry Adams
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Iron sharpeneth man  so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
— Bible
Chance makes our parents  but choice makes our friends.
— Jacques Delille
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance  but an unsafe friend.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Money can't buy friends  but you can get a better class of enemy.
— Spike Milligan
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
— John Singer Sargent
My heart is warm with the friends I make  And better friends I'll not be knowing  Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take  No matter where it's going.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.
— Homer
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
— Eustache Deschamps
A good friend is my nearest relation.
— Thomas Fuller
The rich know not who is his friend.
— Anonymous
The richer your friends  the more they will cost you.
— Elizabeth Marbury
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
— Susan Ferrier
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
— Cicero
A true friend is the best possession.
— Anonymous
Best friend  my well-spring in the wilderness!
— George Eliot
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I have lost friends  some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.
— Virginia Woolf
Faithful are the wounds of a friend  but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
— Bible
An old friend never can be found  and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
— Samuel Johnson
One who's our friend is fond of us  one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
True friends ... face in the same direction  toward common projects  interests  goals.
— C. S. Lewis
Friends are a second existence.
— Baltasar Gracian
My helpless friend  your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend  your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
— O. Hallesby
You leave home to seek your fortune and  when you get it  you go home and share it with your family.
— Anita Baker
If you have a good name  if you are right more often than you are wrong  if your children respect you  if your grandchildren are glad to see you  if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble  if you can face your God and say "I have done my best " then you are a success.
— Ann Landers
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
My darling little girl-child  after such a long and troublesome waiting I now have you in my arms. I am alone no more  I have my baby.
— Martha Martin
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born  and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
— Hazel Scott
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time  any place  more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
— Marilyn French
I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most  an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.
— Helene Iswolsky
If you bungle raising your children  I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway  so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
— Barbara Bush
The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.
— Yvonne de Gaulle
God gave us our relatives  thank God we can choose our friends.
— Ethel Watts Mumford
It seems to me that since I've had children  I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while  but when I did write  I had more of a self to speak from.
— Anne Tyler
All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
— Oprah Winfrey
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
— German proverb
A man  Sir  should keep his friendship in constant repair.
— Samuel Johnson
Be a friend to thyself  and others will be so too.
— Thomas Fuller
Friendship admits of differences of character  as love does that of sex.
— Anonymous
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
— Mason Cooley
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
— Joseph Conrad
There are formalities between the closest of friends.
— Japanese proverb
If you press me to say why I loved him  I can say no more than it was because he was he  and I was 1.
— Michel de Montaigne
Of my friends I am the only one I have left.
— Terence
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it  even if bad  to a classic.
— Benjamin Disraeli
My God  this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends  my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
— Warren G. Harding
There are three faithful friends: an old wife  an old dog  and ready money.
— Benjamin Franklin
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Give me the avowed  the erect  and manly foe  Bold I can meet  perhaps may turn the blow  But of all plagues  good Heaven  thy wrath can send  Save  save  oh save me from the candid friend!
— George Canning
Do not rely completely on any other human being  however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
— Agnes Macphail
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
— Woodrow Wilson
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends  that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
— Henry David Thoreau
We make our friends  we make our enemies  but God makes our next-door neighbour.
— G. K. Chesterton
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are  but you must approach each man by the right door.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Without friends no one would choose to live  though he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
The more we love our friends  the less we flatter them  it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
— Moliere
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them  and important to friendship that we are not.
— Mignon McLaughlin
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief  enemies with the worst intentions  or friends with the best.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
— Goethe
We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up  others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life  a community of thought  a rivalry of aim.
— Henry Adams
When my friends lack an eye  I look at them in profile.
— Joseph Joubert
As in political  so in literary action  a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.
— Joseph Conrad
God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies.
— Marshall de Villars
Never exaggerate your faults  your friends will attend to that.
— Robert C. Edwards
Don't tell your friends their social faults  they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
— George Jean Nathan
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another  people are friends in spots.
— George Santayana
Who friendship with a knave hath made  Is judged a partner in the trade.
— John Gay
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts  I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
— Bertrand Russell
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness  thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others  they will live for you.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold  and the other to be buried.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.
— Martha Mason
It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.
— Pearl S. Buck
They are rich who have true friends.
— Thomas Fuller
Friendship is like money  easier made than kept.
— Samuel Butler
Prosperity makes few friends.
— Vauvenargues
It is a good thing to be rich  it is a good thing to be strong  but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
— Euripides
Better the friend we can see than the money we cannot.
— Greek proverb
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
— Douglas Jerrold
It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.
— Greek proverb
Wealth maketh many friends.
— Bible
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
— Elbert Hubbard
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
— Judith Crist
Friendship is the perfection of love  and superior to love  it is love purified  exalted  proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love  Madam  may  and love does  often stop short of friendship.
— Samuel Richardson
With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.
— Chinese proverb
Greater love has no man than this  that a man lay down his life for his friends.
— Bible
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together  keep me in your heart  I'll stay there forever.
— A. A. Milne
Can miles truly separate you from friends. ... If you want to be with someone you love  aren't you already there?
— Richard Bach
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
— Jane Austen
Sympathy constitutes friendship  but in love there is a sort of antipathy  or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other  and both together make up one whole.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter  and the love of friends.
— Hilaire Belloc
Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession  friendship is never anything but sharing.
— Elie Wiesel
All love that has not friendship for its base  is like a mansion built upon the sand.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
— Ambrose Bierce
Platonic love is love from the neck up.
— Tbyra Samter Winslow
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
— Mason Cooky
Love is blind  friendship closes its eyes.
— Anonymous
Friendship is Love without his wings!
— Lord Byron
Friendship is a serious affection  the most sublime of all affections  because it is founded on principle  and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree  love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom  even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other  and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies  the winds which fan the flame of love  when judiciously or artfully tempered  are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
— Anita Brookner
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion  enmity  worship  love  but no friendship.
— Oscar Wilde
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership  a mutual care of interests  an exchange of favors - in a word  it is a sort of traffic  in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
So long as we love we serve  so long as we are loved by others  I would almost say that we are indispensable  and no man is useless while he has a friend.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship often ends in love  but love in friendship - never.
— Charles Caleb Colton
When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand  so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone  lest we never forget the love of a friend.
— Christian H. Godefroy
Winning has always meant much to me  but winning ftiends has meant the most.
— Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Friends show their love - in times of trouble  not in happiness.
— Euripides
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
— Sydney Smith
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.
— Anonymous
A friend is one who dislikes the same people that you dislike.
— Anonymous
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
— Aristotle
The best way to keep your friends is to never owe them anything and never lend them anything.
— Paul de Kock
Forsake not an old friend  for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
— Anonymous
If you have a friend worth loving  Love him. Yes  and let him know That you love him  ere life's evening Tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said Of a friend till he is dead?
— Daniel W. Hoyt
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end  when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer  I have lost every other friend on earth  I shall at st have one friend left  and that friend shall be down inside of me.
— Abraham Lincoln
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good  you must a hundred try.
— Claude Mermet
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly  and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
— Bible
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
— English proverb
I am wealthy in my friends.
— William Shakespeare
A friend must not be injured  even in jest.
— Syrus
Reprove your friends in secret  praise them openly.
— Syrus
God same me from my friends  I can protect myself from my enemies.
— Marshal de Villars
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
— Marlene Dietrich
True friendship is never serene.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times  however  avoid friends who sympathize too deeply  who give us pity rather than strength.
— D. Lupton
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity  as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Adversity not only draws people together  but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
— Soren Kierkegaard
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
— Richard Graves
In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.
— Greek proverb
A friend is never known till a man has need.
— Anonymous
As the yellow gold is tried in fire  so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
— Ovid
Friendship  of itself a holy tie  is made more sacred by adversity.
— John Dryden
He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.
— Malik Muhammad Jayasi
A cheer  then  for the noble breast that fears not danger's post  And like the lifeboat  proves a friend  When friends are wanted most.
— Eliza Cook
There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us  our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.
— Honore de Balzac
Prosperity makes friends  adversity tries them.
— Publilius Syrus
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
— Lisa Alther