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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”
Epicurus warns against letting desire for more undermine appreciation for what we possess.
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
— Epicurus
“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly.”
“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
“One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
— Lao Tzu
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
— Epictetus
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
— William Saroyan
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.”
— Joseph Addison
“No one is happy who does not think himself so.”
— Publilius Syrus
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
— James M. Barrie
