How can we achieve happiness and peace in our life? Paul answers this question clearly here when we read: "... I do not say it because I have shortages, because I have learned to be content, whatever my situation may be. 12 I know how to live humbly, and I know how to have abundance; in everything and for everything I am taught, both to be satiated and to be hungry, so that I may have plenty as well as to suffer need ... "