Thursday, July 17, 2014

To Enrich the World

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.   ~Bertolt Brecht

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.   ~Edwin Way Teale

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.  ~Jack Kornfield

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ~Bertrand Russell

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.   ~B. C. Forbes

Quotes about materialism