Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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.
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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
He who is contented is rich.
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.