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gratitude grateful luxury
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.] Charlie Chaplin
gratitude grateful opportunity
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me. Charles Dickens
gratitude circles fire
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude men serenity
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.
gratitude dross made
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
gratitude revenge punctual
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
gratitude revenge games
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
gratitude powerful yield
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
gratitude revenge adversity
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
love-is ideas two
And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom. Alan Watts
love-is
Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point. Alan Moore
love-is chocolate different
Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate Al Pacino
love-is self heavy
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Aiden Wilson Tozer
love-is thinking self
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?
love-is chocolate bananas
What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend. Dianne Wiest
love-is water life-is
Water is life is love is life is water. Diane von Furstenberg
love-is understanding discrimination
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike. David Ansen
love-is rewards doing-you
Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately. David McCullough
debt quitting deeper
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.
debt completion
A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion. David Graeber
debt way faults
Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.
debt way violence
If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.
debt aversion
I've always had an aversion to debt. Brunello Cucinelli
debt increase
When you take on debt, you increase your risk, but you also increase your return, Elissa Buie
debts means pay people required walk wealthy
Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.
debt creditors poor-richard
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. Benjamin Franklin
debt-by-founding-fathers awe-inspiring poor-richard
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.