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Love, joy and peace=inalienable rights, but they come from within you. No one can give them and no one can take them away from you.

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Joy and peace are no different from love. They CAN be taken away from you but only if you allow it. This goes back to my siggy line "Things are only as important as I want them to be."

Occurances can, if you allow them, take away your joy and your peace. A loved one can be taken from you. These things can turn your world upside down, make you go sideways, but if you have these three things well rooted in your soul and spirit, they will grow again.

Depending on others to give you these things is a big mistake. We are all human and given to human failings. Everyone, at one time or another, will disappoint us in one way or another. But that's not to say that we can't or shouldn't receive Love, Joy and Peace from others. We take it and store it in our minds, souls and spirits for when it's absent from our lives.

Again, I'm going to bring up the concept of Contentment. If you are content with whatever life brings your way, then you can truly say "I want [for] nothing."

Taking that phrase as it was originally writen "I want nothing," in my perspective, that person is still in the state of WANTING something; "nothing" is something almost impossible to come by if you are on this earth and in touch with life around you... even if you never leave the four walls of your room. Sooner or later you will make contact with another human being, you will need food, drink, etc. You'd have to be in a catatonic state to truly want nothing. ... Which bring me back to "Contentment." A much better alternative!