The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like being in credit, means an active interest applies between the two parties and, once the debt is taken care of, the interest is bound to wane. Robert Rowland Smith
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  1. Do not make people feel overly indebted to you. In their quest to restore the illusive balance and wipe out the debt, they will demonize and attribute wrongdoings to you. Instead, give with love and receive with gratitude. - Charbel Tadros

  2. The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

  3. Debt is great source of inner unhappiness. - Debasish Mridha

  4. I don't want to spend the rest of my life paying off loans when I don't even like school to begin with. - Robin Talley

  5. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. - Charles Dickens

More Quotes By Robert Rowland Smith
  1. Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity.

  2. Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.

  3. The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  4. We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

  5. We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.

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