“Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed was once asked: what is affluence? He said : Decreasing your wishes , and being satisfied with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Time is exactly what we do not have. What decreases in a culture of affluence is precisely and strangely time—along with wisdom… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Practicing the Law of Giving is actually very simple; if you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
“Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“You don't need to know why God sent you to the earth before you say "yes" to what He sent you for!… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient. — Jesse Schell Copy Share Image
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
