“It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.”

“Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.”

“Happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

“Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.”

“We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness”

“until we are willing and able to make the connections between what we are eating and what was required to get it on our plate, and how it affects us to buy, serve, and eat it, we will be unable to make the connections that will allow us to live wisely and harmoniously on this earth.When we cannot make connections, we cannot understand, and we are less free, less intelligent, less loving, and less happy.”