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The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. And the man who is content with little is rich, while the man who is always wanting more is poor, though he have the world's wealth.
— Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1823)

6d ago

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you.

2mo ago

It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more. Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough.

3mo ago

It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the man who hankers after more.

5mo ago

themarginalian.org

Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living

The trick is, I find, to tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies. After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.

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