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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
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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
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
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
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)
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
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
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
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
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
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
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
When you expect nothing, you can
receive everything as a marvelous gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
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 invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
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
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
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
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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 shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein
God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
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