“Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.” ThinkingOur LivesHundredDollarsSpending Book:Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life Source: Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life
“Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.” PeopleGivingFeelingsYoungMoneyOur LivesReadyLetting GoSpendingSavingGenerousAppreciatedSaving MoneyHolding BackStingyGenerous People Author:Fred Rogers
“In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.” WorldWayFirstsEndsSeemsOrderChoicesGivenEnjoyForgetLibertyOur LivesAmountValuableSpendingCertaintySettlingObsessedEarningUnlimitedHolding OnQuestionableEarning Money Author:Rolf Potts
“We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.” KnowsNeedsEyeWatchesOur LivesPromiseTasksAgreeRefuseSpendingWholenessIncompleteThrough The Eyes Author:Guy Finley
“We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work.” PoliticalPoliticsForeverOur LivesQuietBoundsSpendingFollyContentmentPeace And Quiet Book:Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942 Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942
“The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.” StoriesProblemPastJesusOur LivesSeriesSpendingClimbingLaddersClimbing UpClimbing Up The LadderDemotion Author:John Ortberg
“Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!” ImportantMomentsOur LivesDangerousRevengeSpendingResentmentPrecious Moments Author:Bill Crawford
“Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.” ThinkingDoeDifferentOur LivesUniqueDetailsSpendingProductiveSpending Time Author:Akhil Sharma