#wealth

Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#talent #values #virtue #wealth #beauty

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. ↗

— Johann Most

#commonwealth #communists #convinced #establishment #improvement

True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self and to our family. ↗

— Joseph C. Kunz Jr.

#duty #happiness #inspiration #life #success

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you. ↗

— Clotaire Rapaille

#americans #code #culture #divine #god

I tell you, say the rich, the poor are naught but dirty wind welling in air-shafts over the cinders and droppings of the past, their voices thick with grease and ordure, sewer-greed to corrode the ear with the horrors of the past and the voids of new stupidity. One could drown waiting for the poor to make one fine distinction. Yes, destroy us say the rich and you lose the roots of God. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#rich #squalor #wealth #death

Ben Franklin said: "Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy wealthy and wise" Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father: "Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning. ↗

— Emanuel Haldeman-Julius

#ethics #inspirational #wealth #business

We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#economics #redistribution-of-wealth #socialism #inspirational

Mums tik daudz pieder, cik mēs paši ar savām rokām varam nopelnīt, paši ar savu garu uzcelt, paši ar savu prātu izgudrot, paši izdāvāt un beidzot – paši savā sirdī izturēt. Pazuduši esam, ja gaidām, lai citi mūs celtu, atzītu, stiprinātu, aizstāvētu un aplaimotu. ↗

— Zenta Mauriņa

#wealth #inspirational

To heal physically, one must heal the emotional aspect of the issue first or it will resurface in another way. ↗

— Stephen Richards

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

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it. ↗

— John Waters

#freedom #reading #wealth #freedom