#we

People can be free from suffering if people give up selfish desires for power,wealth,and pleasure. ↗

— Buddhist Belief

#wealth

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual…O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#joyfulness #thanksgiving #wealth

Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.” —Zarost ↗

— Greg Hamerton

#fantasy-fiction #greed #power #wisdom #greed

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? ↗

— Rumi

#quest #rumi #wealth

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#earnings #economics #income #socialism #wealth

What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave. ↗

— Criss Jami

#deceit #defamation #denial #enemy #feelings

God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory. ↗

— Criss Jami

#failure #falling #glory-of-god #god #healing

And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle...and without magnets glued to them." "Me, too. When you decide to bake me some, let me know. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#alex #brittany #carlos #carlos-fuentes #fuentes

Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#assignment #avatar #book #burst #expression

Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#ron-weasley #humour