Eric Butterworth Quotes

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

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

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.

Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

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

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

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

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.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

You can be happy where you are.

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

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Oh, I suppose you've given me as square a deal as you could. We shouldn't expect from any person something beyond his capacity.

Once one feels content about what one has, then humiliation does not arise. If one could never feel content, one would never even get what one wished to have.

The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'

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

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

You got to keep your feet on the ground, and it is what it is.

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

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

I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.