Adagia

The earth laughs in flowers.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

- Seneca -

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

- Lao Tzu -

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

- Epictetus -

He is richest who is content with the least.

- Socrates -

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

- Charles Dickens -

There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.

- George Sand -

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

- Helen Keller -

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

- Meister Eckhart -

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

- Henry David Thoreau -

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

- Immanuel Kant -

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.

- Democritus -

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

- Epictetus -

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

- Voltaire -

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

- Mark Twain -

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

- Plato -