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

How were we to know we were happy?

I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek.

A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn't go on to say anything about inheriting the earth. I

What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth.

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

This morning, when I was sitting in front of the window and taking a long, deep look outside at God and nature, I was happy, just plain happy. Peter, as long as people feel that kind of happiness within themselves, the joy of nature, health and much more besides, they'll always be able to recapture that happiness. Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

If you're not enough before the gold medal, you won't be enough with it.