Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

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

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

C'mon. Just a plate of food, and I promise, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just perch yourself in the corner, eat a plate of ribs, and glower." She winked. "You know, be your usual self.

You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.

I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.

I now pray, not for more of this world's goods and greater blessings, but to be worthy of that which I already have.