The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.

He did not use these things anymore, and yet, the thought of letting them go made him sad. He felt they represented times in his life he could not recall without their presence. They represented stories

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.

And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up.

Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

Mientras pueda decir D-i-o-s, sabré que hay alguien conmigo.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

When you think of the possessions you now own or the ones you hope to own—or when you're envying others for what they have—remember that the scriptures also warn that where your treasure is, there your heart is also.

You can be happy where you are.