#pine

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise. ↗

— Mark Sundeen

#self-awareness #money

He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five years to discover what some rich people never discover — that we all have a certain capacity for happiness and unhappiness. And that the economic hazards of life do not seriously affect it. ↗

— John Fowles

#rich #unhappiness #money

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#materialism #money #satirical #success #money

How you do money is how you do life. ↗

— Orna Ross

#manifestation #money-happiness #money

..it is a fact that money exhilarates people, it puts them in hysterias of good cheer, they suddenly care about you and want the best for you. ↗

— E. L. Doctrow

#money-happiness #money-talks #money

Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life. ↗

— Piero Gheddo

#attention #christianity #compassion #empathy #giving

Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#motivational #motivational

The door to heaven is open to us at any time we are willing to accept that we are of absolutely no importance. The bars of our own hell - the “mind-forged manacles” as Blake put it - are our attempts to justify ourselves or prove our self-worth. Accept that none of this matters and we can see that heaven is all around us. It is there in a child’s smile, in the rain that waters the earth, even in the maggots that rise in new life from dead meat. All around us is evidence that life and love are eternal and unbroken by strife and suffering. ↗

— Aussiescribbler

#heaven-on-earth #life #love #love

If you say you can't, you won't! The only thing holding you back from success is yourself. ↗

— Jody Provost

#life-philosophy #love #success #love

What I know of love is satisfaction, Contentment, pleasure, and vivaciousness. But all my envisions were all fictions. 'Cause there's no such thing as pure happiness. ↗

— Eli Emmanuel N. Libuit

#love