George Müller (1805–1898) German-English clergyman
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Second Part.
Second Part of Narrative
“I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.”
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Siobhan Fahey (1958) singer and songwriter in Banarama and Shakespears Sister
On her relation with David A. Stewart, her husband at the time, in "Siobhan Fahey?" The Observer (19 May 1996) http://web.archive.org/20090211192644/www.geocities.com/djohnl_2000/Interviews/1996_May_Observer.html
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 115
“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
ἐν ὀλιγίστοις κεῖται τὸ εὐδαιμόνως βιῶσαι
VII, 67
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886) Anglo-American temperance orator
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 561.
Bill Moyers (1934) American journalist
"America 101", speech at the fiftieth anniversary of the Council of Great City Schools (27 October 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 237
Context: For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. In 1940, the average pay of a male teacher was actually 3.6 percent more than what other college-educated men earned. Today it is 60 percent lower. Women teachers now earn 16 percent less than other college-educated women. This bewilders me. … There was no Plato without Socrates, and no John Coltrane without Miles Davis.