Jonathan Swift Quotes

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.

Don't struggle to get what you want, but modify your wants.

Whatever comes my way, I appreciate and do my best at, and if it were to fade someday, I guess I would find something else. But I just don't plan the future, I guess.

I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable.

One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.

It pays to be content with your lot.

I have no complaints. I am comfortable and satisfied. I am not the kind of person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

You have to take everything as it comes.

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

So, it's good to be here, wherever I am.

She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.

Receive all with simplicity that happens to you