#weal

..the family motto, after all, is 'To Have and To Hold'. We were always a warrior breed, but we don't fight solely for lands and material wealth. There's an understanding, drummed into all of us from our earliest years, that success-true success-means capturing and holding , something more. That something more is the future-to excel is very well, but one needs to excel and survive. To seize lands is well and good, but we want to hold them for all time. Which means creating and building a family-defending the family that is, and creating the next generation. Because it's the next generation that's our future. Without securing that future, material success is no real success at all. ↗

— Stephanie Laurens

#future-generations #wealth #family

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#ennui #spoiled #want #wealth #family

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#food #health #hunger #wealth #food

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it. ↗

— John Waters

#wealth #freedom

In the name of freedom and redistribution of wealth, I’ve decided to grow a beard on my chest.
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— Jarod Kintz

#chest #freedom #mustache #redistribution #wealth

Stand out from the crowd, be yourself. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself. ↗

— Holly Valance

#anything #area #being #buy #done

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#community #freedom #wealth #art

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#community #identity #politics #art

Positive belief in yourself will give you the energy needed to conquer the world and this belief is the power behind all creation. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age