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It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have. ↗

— Robert B. Reich

#happiness #money

When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good. ↗

— David Servant

#hell #money #radical #reward #stewardship

and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest. ↗

— Tim Lane

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An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#self-pity #money

To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture--a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given. ↗

— Hudson Taylor

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I wish I could sculpt my shadow into my night clone, and it could be out earning me money while I slept, instead of being folded up neatly in my underwear drawer like it is now.
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— Jarod Kintz

#money #sculpt #shadow #sleep #money

Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it's heavy. Oh it's hard. It isn't easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time. ↗

— Martin Amis

#hangovers #money

On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. It was since that time, when he had stopped being a Samana in his heart, that Siddhartha began to play the game for money and precious things, which he at other times only joined with a smile and casually as a custom of the childlike people, with an increasing rage and passion. He was a feared gambler, few dared to take him on, so high and audacious were his stakes. He played the game due to a pain of his heart, losing and wasting his wretched money in the game brought him an angry joy, in no other way he could demonstrate his disdain for wealth, the merchants' false god, more clearly and more mockingly. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#wealth #money

I don’t need your sympathy, unless it comes in the form of a check or cash. I also accept money orders.
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— Jarod Kintz

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Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts. ↗

— Stephen King

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