I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

isn't it true? What you don't have is much less than what you do. from A Love Worth Giving

His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.

Stop looking for Big. The magic happens when you stay small. Ninety-five dollars bought more than the secret to grief. It paid for the secret to life. Whatever we don't have isn't the missing piece. The moments we live for their own sake turn to moments of joy. Something way more profound and lasting than happiness is peace.

I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. Philippians 4:11

Since not everyone is looking for something elaborate, I've come up with a range of simple things that everyone can buy and wear.

There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.

It is better to live on the housetop than live in a house full of confusion' well, not a quote off of a book, but still my favourite.

There is, too, a very great difference in the purpose served both by those events which we call adverse and those called prosperous. For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

Love your life, poor as it is.