Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

He that studies his content, wants it.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

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

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.