
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
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.”
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.”
“Happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have.”
“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.
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.”
Variant: You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.