#ness

If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#change #inspiration #meditation #mindfulness #wisdom

You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#life #love #money #life

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop. ↗

— Kathy Lette

#kathy-lette #money #nip-tuck #shop #money

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#images #money #moral-decay #status #values

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#money #money

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#money #poverty #money

Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!" "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm. "What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?" "I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly. "I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!" "No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#cruelty #death #justice #life #philosophy

Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so. ↗

— Barbara Barrington Jones

#change

People go to the movies instead of moving. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#tennessee-williams #movies

Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#escape #running-away #unhappiness #movies