No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
There must be more to life than having everything.
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.
Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.
I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.
You can't appreciate home until you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
