Appreciating What You Have Quotes

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

Love your life, poor as it is.

It's a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not.

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

Never forget that all you have is all you need.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

So many people say, "I just don't have a good job, or my marriage is not where it's supposed to be." Really it's excuse after excuse to not be happy. To me it's a waste. I'm going to look at what's right and not what's wrong in my life. I'm alive, I'm healthy, and you know, a good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.

Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

It is better to have a little than nothing.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

My parents grew up in the Depression. Despite the success that they both had in their lives, there's a certain mentality that tells you to finish all the food that's on your plate and not wasting anything and appreciating what's on the table.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.