Echoes

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

It would be better for me that the whole world should disagree with me than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow — I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.