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 Eliza Cook
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
A cheer then for the noble breast that fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
