“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection — which we have ourselves created.”
"It’s true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
"The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
"When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
Contentment
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."
- A. A. Milne
Contentment
"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."
- Jason Fried
Contentment
"The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing."
Contentment
"As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried after a good long life."
Contentment