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“Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.”

Grows Growth Wealth Poverty Economics Overcoming Increase Absolutes Misery Subjective

Book:The Second Crisis of Economic Theory: And Other Selected Papers from the American Economic Meeting, December 27-29, 1971

Source: The Second Crisis of Economic Theory: And Other Selected Papers from the American Economic Meeting, December 27-29, 1971

“Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.”

Heart Book Stories Eye Grows Genius Ears Absolutes Stronger Details Phrases Wiser Trails Heartbreaking Stunning New Books Masons

Author:Josephine Humphreys

“I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.”

Believe Philosophy I Believe Grows Powerful Growing Up Absolutes Infinite Love And Respect

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.”

Believe Belief Grows Our Lives Development Absolutes Structure Complicated Assumption Absolute Truth

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.”

Way Happens Suffering Asks Grows Practice Absolutes

Book:Donkey Gospel: Poems

Source: Donkey Gospel: Poems

“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”

Thinking Men Should Whole Happens Belief Grows Existence Accepting Knowledge Learning Awareness Adventure Discovery Absolutes Management Constant Code Willingness Formulas Stakes

Author:Martin Buber

“Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.”

“Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.”

Feels May Littles Desire Grows Wealth Rich Resources Absolutes Satisfied Relative

Book:Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

“An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.”

Men Giving Grows Power Honest Honesty Morality Please Absolutes Privacy Abandoned Pillars Impunity

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.”

Ifs Reality Hate Fall Passion Grows Growing Flower Regret Absolutes Attraction Weed Manifest Don't Hate Don't Regret Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion

Book:Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan

Source: Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan

“There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year's will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up.”