I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the "Professional Building." I felt better right away. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without. —Puritan saying More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. —Jon Kabat-Zinn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept — the realm of emotion and conscience; of memory and intention and sensation. —John Updike More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: strength wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Santayana inherited his simple and unostentatious habits from his father. Once he asked the senior Santayana why he always traveled third class. "Because there's no fourth class," his father said. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty. I was almost disappointed yesterday to find thirty dollars in my desk which I did not know that I possessed, though now I should be sorry to lose it. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the moneymaking street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul. —William James More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before. —Mary Mapes Dodge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here is a man whose desires are few. In some things he will not be able to maintain his resolution, but they will be few. Here is a man whose desires are many. In some things he will be able to maintain his resolution, but they will be few. —Mencius More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness. —Marie Corelli More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. —Arnold Schwarzenegger More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardize your chances of promotion and self-advancement. This is how it starts, and, before you know where you are, you're a fully paid-up member of the rat pack. The price is too high. —Jimmy Reid More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
John Muir once declared that he was better off than the magnate E.H. Harriman. "I have all the money I want," Muir explained, "and he hasn't. —Clifton Fadiman More about this quote Tags: money want craving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email