Roger de Rabutin Quotes

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

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

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.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

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

If you cannot have the thing you want, you want the thing you have.

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

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. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

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.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given.

I don't I have everything I want; however, I have a lot and for that I am very grateful.

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

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

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.

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

It's good to be anywhere.

I don't complain when it's sunny.

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.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Knowledge means being in the place where we are put.