He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

We love things we love what they are.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.