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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Cesare Pavese
We wait for the day to come when men will turn as eagerly to the work of converting their material wealth into real life values as they are now devoting themselves to mere acquisition. When that time comes the successful business man will stop short in his impetuous career, and ask himself if it really pays to sacrifice life with all its varied, but fast-fleeting opportunities, to an aim so narrow and sordid. Then the multimillionaire will not seek to rid himself of a useless burden by indiscriminate giving, but will study with infinite pains to restore for the happiness and welfare of all mankind those vast riches that society itself has enabled him to accumulate. Then all forms of outward wealth will mean nothing but opportunity for inward growth and expansion. The search for truth, the love of beauty in nature and art, the enthusiasm for humanity, the passion for the ideal, the glow of hope and aspiration, all these, growing up within the soul of man will take up these modern material gifts, in themselves so inert and useless, and make them radiant with a value they do not now possess. Somehow or other this dead world of matter into which, in our western civilization, especially, we have buried too much of our life, must be made to render back the vital treasure of which it has despoiled us. Our world must be spiritualized or it will grow more and more stale and dull and unsatisfactory on our hands. Not to our captains of industry, not to our developers of material wealth must we look for life and life more abundant in the future; but ever to those men who, with some inward illumination, will
Loren B. Macdonald, Life in the
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Willem de Kooning
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Ayn Rand
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
J. PetitSenn
Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
Laurence J. Peter
You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.
Cynthia Pearl Maus
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
Lucretius
After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
Proverb
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory
To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
H. L. Wayland
For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
Samuel Butler
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
Henry David Thoreau
A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast.
Mary Elizabeth Hewitt
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
Joseph Brotherton, inscription o
To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time.
Stephen Richards
Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.
John S. Bonnell
Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.
Leo Tolstoy
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
W. Wirt
