A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.

and it don't never matter how poor you are as long as you've got something to love.

Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that.

We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.

The smile of God is the goal of your life.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.