On Personal Happiness

         


   Those who know when they have enough are rich. 
   
                                                  Chinese Proverb 
   
   
   
   
   
   When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to 
   seek it elsewhere. 
   
                                                  La Rochefoucauld 




   How happy is he, born or taught, that serveth not 
      another's will,
   Whose armor is his honest thought,
      and simple truth his utmost skill. 
   
                                                  Sir H. Wotton 




   The great lesson to be learned is that Happiness is within us.  
   No passing amusement, no companionship, no material possession 
   can permanently satisfy.  We must hoard up our own Strength.  
   We must depend upon our own Resources for amusement and 
   pleasure.  We must make or mar our own Tranquillity.  To teach 
   them this is the preparation for Life which we can give our 
   children. 

                                                  Phil A. Ledger 




   No man ever found a happy life by chance,  Or yawned it into 
   being with a wish; Or with the snout of groveling appetite Ever 
   smelled it out, and grubbed it from the dirt. An art it is, and 
   must be learned; and learned With unremitting effort, or be 
   lost. 
       

                                                  Edward Young 
   
            
   

   True happiness never entered at an eye. True happiness resides 
   in things unseen. 

                                                  Edward Young 
                                                 
   
   
   
   
   The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. 
   
   
   
   
   He has enough who is content. 




   Contentment comes of the heart, not of the house. 




   Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking 
   away some fire. 




   Contentment is the philosopher's stone, which turns all it 
   toucheth into gold;  the poor man is rich with it and the rich 
   man is poor without it.  




   Nature requires little --- fancy much. 




   Better bring thy mind to thy condition than have thy condition 
   brought to thy mind. 
    


   Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what 
   God chooses to send.