The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness consists not in having much,
but in being content with little.
- Marguerite Gardiner
Keep your eyes open to your mercies.
The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
A Simple Life
Rejoice with What Is
A Life of Abundance
Be Thankful. Be Content.
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Come to the edge
We can't. We're afraid
We can't. We will fall. Come to the edge
And they came. And he pushed them
And they flew
- Guillaume Apollinaire
Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
Further reading:
Accepting Miracles
The Edge of All You Know
The Winds of Grace
Goodness of Humanity
Opportunity for Daily Thanksgiving
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Further reading:
Learn from Failure
Know that You have been Blessed
(
the door will be opened to you)
How to Think Positive
It's Never Too Late
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing
we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation
can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
- Robert Orben
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
A Shared Dream
Win-Win vs. Compromise
Standing Together
Progress of the Human Mind
