The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

sometimes wondered if it would be better to let go of the pain of wanting and settle for the calm mediocrity of the status quo.

Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want--when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.

sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles