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

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

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

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.

He thought rightly that we Americans, by inclination at least, have been divided into two kinds: "boomers" and "stickers." Boomers, he said, are "those who pillage and run," who want "to make a killing and end up on Easy Street," whereas stickers are "those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in.

If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.