Quotes related to Proverbs 15:16
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
- Aesop
The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.
- Henry Ford
Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
- John Piper
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.
- Aristotle
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
- Samuel Johnson
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
- Heinrich Heine
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
- Aristotle
Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.
- Beverly Lewis
The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Happiness does not come from having much, but from being content, even when you have little.
- Matshona Dhliwayo