I loved the country so that I was happy as you are after you have been with a woman that you really love, when, empty, you feel it welling up again and there it is and you can never have it all and yet what there is, now, you can have, and you want more and more, to have, and be, and live in, to possess now again for always, for that long, sudden-ended always; making time stand still, sometimes so very still that afterwards you wait to hear it move,and it is slow in starting.

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley

In those days you did not really need anything, not even the rabbit's foot, but it was good to feel it in your pocket.

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.

As David told a friend one day, "I'm working so hard to live where we want to live that I don't actually get to live there." As

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.

You can be happy where you are.

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.