“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Variant: 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.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.”
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.”
Sheryl Crow (1962) American musician and actress
“Happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have.”
Jimmy Stewart (1908–1997) American film and stage actor
“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.”
Quid enim refert, quantum habeas? multo illud plus est, quod non habes.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (-54–39 BC) Roman scholar
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, bk. 12, ch. 2, sect. 13; translation from Riad Aziz Kassis The Book of Proverbs and Arabic Proverbial Works (Leiden: Brill, 1999) p. 159.
Misattributed
“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Variant: You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.