Rheta Childe Dorr Quotes

I don't need to be on the number one show. Number 25 is fine.

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

I don't need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.