Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

I change so many houses and places where I live; I change them like I change socks. I don't have this absolute, kind of, how you say, attachment. My brother, if he just has to go to holiday to sleep in different bed, for him it is a disaster. I can sleep under this table or in a five-star hotel; I don't care.

There are none so impoverished as those who deny the blessings of their lives.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

contentment is an expression of faith in the goodness of God. It says, "God, I believe you love me and know what's best for me.

Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: Happiness is my choice. I don't need anyone's approval to be happy. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Even if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close." PSALM 27:10 (NLT) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: Whose opinion matters most to me? Whose approval am I living for?

Happiness isn't getting all that you want. It's enjoying all that you have.

We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.

Success is when you're seduced into thinking that your joy and satisfaction are not here but there--somewhere in the future, at some moment when you accomplish X or you win Y. Success can never get enough. It makes your head spin, because you get that thing you were desperately working for, for all those years, and when you get it, you realize that it isn't what you thought it was.

Mrs Lynde says, Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed. But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!