Georg Henrik von Wright Quotes

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.

You've got to just be happy with your lot.

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

I have nothing to complain about.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.

I'm not happy to be here. I'm just happy to be!

We need to stop thinking the grass is greener on the other side and be happy with the love we have.

Whatever state you find yourself in, you're supposed to be content there.

I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want