One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

the fountain of content must spring up in the mind: and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove .

Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors.

But if Abram bore his continual wanderings patiently, our   fastidiousness is utterly inexcusable, when we murmur against God, if   he does not grant us a quiet nest.

We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

Well I've had a happy life.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.