Edmund Waller Quotes

I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

I have an awfully good life.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

I am completely happy with my life. I love everything about it.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I have my own worries and concerns and frustrations, but I'm doing something I love to do. My wife and kids are in good shape. What is there not to be happy about?

I'm at a time in my life where I'm so filled up that I don't want more.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.