The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.

I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?

Why do you do this to me? she cried. Why do you make the things I have chosen seem hateful to me, if you have nothing to give me instead? No, I have nothing to give you instead, he said, sitting up and turning so that he faced her. If I had, it should be yours, you know.

Beneath our questions about God's generosity and his care for our needs is something darker. What we really care about is our wants.

But the point is that we live in a culture that idolizes happiness, and if we idolize happiness, it will always elude us.

To look to Christ to meet our perceived psychological needs is to Christianize our lusts. We are asking God to give us what we want, so we can feel better about ourselves, or so we can have more happiness, not holiness, in our lives.