#overt

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons. ↗

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you. ↗

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty! ↗

— Major Thomas

#drive #folly #grace #greed #joy

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. ↗

— David Baldacci

#change #civilization #detachment #journalism #mankind

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#freedom #materialism #poverty #freedom

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ↗

— Mae West

#conquers #except #love #poverty #things

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient ↗

— Milton Berle

#poverty #truth #inspirational

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. ↗

— Chris Barber

#introverted #life #music #self-absorbed #their

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. ↗