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Athens, Greece
If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.
Plain savors bring us a pleasure equal to a luxurious diet, when all the pain due to want is removed; and bread and water produce the highest pleasure, when one who needs them puts them to his lips.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Walt Whitman·1860I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Mary Wollstonecraft·1796Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose. Besides, few like to be seen as they really are; and a degree of simplicity, and of undisguised confidence, which, to uninterested observers, would almost border on weakness, is the charm, nay the essence of love or friendship, all the bewitching graces of childhood again appearing.
Eleanor Roosevelt·1960Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
