“Getting money requires taking risks, being optimistic, and putting yourself out there.
But keeping money require the opposite of taking risk. It requires humility, and fear that what you've made can be taken away from you just as fast. It requires frugality and an acceptance that at least some of what you've made is attributable to luck, so past success can't be relied upon to repeat indefinitely.”
Source: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
“The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, "I can do whatever I want today.”
Source: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
“The Word of God is able to guide people on how to love genuinely. It offers a solid foundation and a bond that goes on continuously.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“Happiness is a complicated subject because everyone's different. But if there's a common denominator in happiness - a universal fuel of joy - it's that people want to control their lives.”
Source: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
“The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want, is priceless. It is the highest divident money pays.”
Source: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
“Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely.”
Source: City of Dragons
“I am surprised at how many people in their thirties onward appear to own no assets!”
“Rachel slid inside her silver Kia and slammed the car door, grateful that the museum’s security guard was now watching from a distance. If he hadn’t been, she might have acted on a homicidal impulse and run Chase over, the manipulative jerk. In fact, it made her feel better just to imagine it.”
Source: Severed Threads
“At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night... I wished I were a Denver Mexican, or even a poor overworked Jap, anything but what I was so drearily, a "white man" disillusioned. All my life I'd had white ambitions; that was why I'd abandoned a good woman like Terry in the San Joaquin Valley I passed the dark porches of Mexican and Negro homes.”
Source: On the Road
“There are many ways to take a heart.
And the King of Crows uses all methods; he shies from none.
He’s happy to have it cut out all at once as I, the huntsman, did.
He’s happy to have it taken piece by piece, year by year, like a miser hoarding coins, with punishing silences, biting glances, and love served cold.
Poisonous words do the job, too. They are as sharp as knives and leave their victims hollow.”
Source: Poisoned