Mignon McLaughlin 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.

Everything is amazing and nobody is happy

The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

You can be happy where you are.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

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

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.

Knowledge means being in the place where we are put.

I say to myself: 'Come on, Betty, you can't have everything in life. You've been very lucky.'

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

Be satisfied with what you have.

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

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

I wish that I was where I am.

We would be happier with what we have if we weren't so unhappy about what we don't' have

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

Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.