The earth was created for rich and poor in common. Nature knows no rich. She creates us all alike and alike she encloses us in the sepulchre. What more resembles one dead man than another dead man? —Saint Ambrose More about this quote Tags: poor death nature wealth earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. —Frank Lloyd Wright More about this quote Tags: people wealth possessions control object Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What does a man need — really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in, and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all — in the material sense. And we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, and preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. —Sterling Hayden More about this quote Tags: accomplishment work food payment activity shelter mortgage gadgets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: humanity success money mankind cars charity service definitions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our perception that we have "no time" is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. —Margaret Visser More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time. —Gloria Naylor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion — the relations between one thing and another. Humanity goes. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: humanity success time urgency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. —Colette More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My feet are cold," one says, and the legless man replies: "So are mine. So are mine. —Kentucky folklore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for joy. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: truth space grief joy healing relief overcoming test room Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself. —Eudora Welty More about this quote Tags: reality mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living. —Etty Hillesum More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So many gods, so many creeds, / so many paths that wind and wind, / While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox More about this quote Tags: God kindness sadness need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light" — that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. . . . The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. —Bob Dylan More about this quote Tags: truth religion philosophy music belief songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email