Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 5:10
Those who work for money alone, and who receive for their pay nothing but money, are always underpaid, no matter how much they receive. Money is necessary, but the big prizes of life cannot be measured in dollars and cents. No
- Napoleon Hill
Desire The Starting Point of All Achievement: the First Step Toward Riches
- Napoleon Hill
Don't need no more of this world's goods. Some folks gits plumb mesmerized when paper money is shook afore their eyes.
- Catherine Marshall
When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.
- Marina Abramovic
We may spend our lives chasing after wealth, status, influence, and sensual pleasures, thinking they will improve the quality of our life. And yet we end up not having any time left to live.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
- Thomas Merton
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.
- Thomas Merton
The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without substance? Because the pursuit itself has become our only substitute for joy. Unable to rest in anything we achieve, we determine to forget our discontent in a ceaseless quest for new satisfactions. In this pursuit, desire itself becomes our chief satisfaction.
- Thomas Merton
The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.
- Thomas Merton
any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.
- Thomas Merton
our material riches unfortunately imply a spiritual, cultural, and moral poverty that are perhaps far greater than we see.
- Thomas Merton
Excerpt from Cracking the Safe: Thus what the world calls good business is only a way To gather up the loot, pack it, make it secure In one convenient load for the more enterprising thieves. Who is there, among those called smart, Who does not spend his time amassing loot For a bigger robber than himself?
- Thomas Merton