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

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us. -Thomas Fuller, M.D.

Nothing will content him who is not content with a little. -Greek proverb

All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind. Is not the whole earth covered with leather for him whose feet are encased in shoes? -Panchatantra

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. -Joseph Addison

You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -Steven Wright

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. -Samuel Johnson

We must develop... the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. -Martin Luther King Jr.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. -Thomas Fuller, M.D.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. -Alphonse Karr

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling--and indeed healthy--to ask why you have been given so much. -Condoleezza Rice

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. -Elbert Hubbard

As a rule, for no one does life drag more disagreeably than for him who tries to speed it up. -Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene. -Epictetus

The world is not to be put in order, the world is in order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. -Henry Miller

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. -Albert Camus

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. -John Berry

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. -Bertrand Russell

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. -Benjamin Franklin

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Helen Keller