“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

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“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough”
― Oprah Winfrey

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
― Martha Washington

“We need much less than we think we need.”
― Maya Angelou

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

“Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.”
― Lao Tzu

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
― Lao Tzu

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
― Walt Whitman

“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re real quite lucky.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Inventory:“Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I’d been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant