You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.

Because I have time to spare, and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything of me. I don't have to prove anything. I'm not rushing anywhere; each day is a gift I enjoy to the fullest.

The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his

Lucia argued something similar. She gave as an example the Chihuahua, Marcelo, who lived eternally grateful in the present, accepting whatever might happen without worrying about any future misfortune that might add to all those he had previously encountered in his life as an abandoned dog. "Too

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

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.

He has enough who is contented with little.