It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Happiness is not a goal. It's a by-product.

There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.

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

The most important thing is to enjoy your life~to be happy~it's all that matters.

Love the life you live, and live the life you love.

Every little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.

Most people now are looking for a better place, which means that a lot of them will end up in a worse one. I think this is what Nathan learned from his time in the army and the war. He saw a lot of places, and he came home. I think he gave up the idea that there is a better place somewhere else. There is no "better place" than this, not in this world. And it is by the place we've got, and our love for it and our keeping of it, that this world is joined to Heaven.

It is possible, as I have learned again and again, to be in one's place, in such company, wild or domestic, and with such pleasure, that one cannot think of another place that one would prefer to be—or of another place at all. One does not miss or regret the past, or fear or long for the future. Being there is simply all, and is enough. Such times give one the chief standard and the chief reason for one's work.

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.