For I am a bear of very little brain, and big words bother me.

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue what you want.

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I've nothing, am nothing, shall be nothing, and yet I take nothing.

A willing acceptance of all that God assigns and a glad surrender of all that I am and have constitute the key to receiving the gift of a quiet heart. Whenever I have balked, the quietness goes. It is restored, and life immeasurably simplified, when I have trusted and obeyed.

My portion. My cup. My lot is secure. My heart can be at peace. My Father is in charge. How simple!

Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.