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Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato

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If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

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It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift

He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu

 

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau

Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa

The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)

Let my soul smile through my heart
and my heart smile through my eyes,
that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa

A man is rich in proportion to
the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike.
Each has their suffering.
Some suffer too much, others too little.
- The Buddha

I believe life's rich experiences need to be shared with others -
for me this is the way one builds knowledge.
- Pravs J

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid
for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer

The sage does not hoard.
The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more;
having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
- Lao Tzu

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
- Anais Nin

The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin

When you expect nothing, you can
receive everything as a marvelous gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- Anais Nin

Ordinary life does not interest me.
I seek only the high moments.
I am in accord with the surrealists,
searching for the marvelous.
- Anais Nin

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato

Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous

You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter

The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa

This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau

The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy

Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein

Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse

God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell

You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous

It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau


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