I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions and it took its toll on all my relationships on my physical health my emotional and mental health.

All mankind... being all equal and independent no one ought to harm another in his life health liberty or possessions.

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

Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

It is not the possession of truth but the success which attends the seeking after it that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness it is necessary to have deserved it.

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul.

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Happiness is found in doing not merely possessing.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Material possessions winning scores and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society it is a good thing if you possess great talent to give early in your youth a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that be a snob.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess and no matter how good one's sentiments may be if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge more than money more than honor to the persons who possess it.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.