Sad as it is, seems that the good always goes and gets replaced by something a whole lot less than good,” Aunt Mabel replied as she rearranged items in the old glass case. “Just seems we discard too much good in tryin’ to make things better. Maybe we should just enjoy what we got without always thinkin’ about what we don’t.

Pain says that if we’re alive enough to feel pain, we’re alive enough to feel joy. It’s just a question of whether we believe that there’s space for both.

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.

Thankfulness acknowledges that we can’t own anything, but we can experience everything. And just knowing that makes me thankful.

Have we forgotten how to laugh? If so, we have forgotten how to live. And that is certainly nothing to be laughing about.

Once I acknowledge that life owes me nothing, I have positioned myself so that I can begin to enjoy everything.

Life is not something to be “done.” Rather, it is something to be “lived.” And to confuse the former with the latter is to squander both.

That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.