Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind.
The end of pain we take as happiness.
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
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.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
Few love what they may have.
The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
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.
It is not customary to love what one has.
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou striv'est to get; and what thou hast, forget'est.
Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
