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 Lydia M. Child
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?... Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.
The cure for all ills and wrongs the cares the sorrows and the crimes of humanity all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
