Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!

Many people say "my life stinks". Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

Instead of always looking to get fulfillment from my loved ones and the other blessings in my life, I can simply enjoy them for what they are.

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

But so long as we are occupied with any other object than God Himself, there will be neither rest for the heart nor peace for the mind. But when we receive all that enters our lives as from His hand, then, no matter what may be our circumstances or surroundings—whether in a hovel, a prison-dungeon, or a martyr's stake—we shall be enabled to say, "The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places" (Ps. 16:6).

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.