"Contentment is the only real wealth."-Alfred Nobel

So I guess we may all be as wealthy or as impoverished as we choose.

"The first hundred years are the hardest."

My father told me this many years ago when I was faced with some life changing grief. It has given me a unique perspective ever since. I say it to myself in the hardest of times and then I know I can make it through anything on this first leg of my life's journey.