What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

For the first time I realized that gratitude and joy were connected, like conjoined twins. I couldn't be happy because I wasn't grateful and I wasn't grateful because I wasn't allowing myself to be. I was too busy hunting the next prize to appreciate the prize already at home. What I had was never enough, not because of the deficit in what I had but because of the deficit in me.

Happiness isn't getting all that you want. It's enjoying all that you have.

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

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