You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.
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Vernon Howard
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Maya Angelou
I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people...
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C. Joybell C.
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Socrates
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
More Quotes By Laini Taylor
Love is a luxury."" No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.
She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her...
It was brave, " countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.
I..I sang, " she whispered, "if that matters, " and Karou felt her heart pulled to pieces. This Misbegotten warrior, fiercest of them all, had crouched in an icy stream bed to sing a chimera soul into her canteen, because she hadn't known what else...
I'm afraid they're in love, " he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they...
