You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

No great thing is created suddenly.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Great loves too must be endured.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.