You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

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

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

I think in the ’70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the ’60s as ‚ideal‘ was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

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

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.