Allowance Quotes

“I say, you don't know how I could raise fifty quid somehow, do you?"
"Why don't you work?"
"Work?" said young Bingo, surprised. "What, me? No, I shall have to think of some way.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

“Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Never allow your short term temperament to affect your long term decisions.”
― Moutasem Algharati

“You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life.”
― John Dufresne, Love Warps the Mind a Little

“Life Works in a Very Simple Way. Resist it less and allow it unfold the way it wants. Use your power of allowing.”
― Raphael Zernoff

“The idea of spending money, of buying myself something lovely but unnecessary, has always burdened me. Is it because my father would scrupulously count out his coins, and rub his fingers over every bill before giving me one in case there was another stuck to it? Who hated eating out, who wouldn't order even a cup of tea in a coffee bar because a box of tea bags in the supermarket cost the same? Was it my parents' strict tutelage that prompts me to always choose the least-expensive dress, greeting card, dish on the menu? To look at the tag before the item on the rack, the way people look at the descriptions of paintings in a museum before lifting their eyes to the work?”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

“Expect everything to happen for your benefit yet do not insist on how it must be experienced. Allow yourselves to be surprised. Remember that what you expect with your physical mind is the least you can be offered by your all-knowing-Self.”
― Raphael Zernoff

“We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Interest in temperament as an individual difference dimension of importance in one's behavior leads to reanalysis of both theoretical and methodological considerations relating to the construct.”
― Moutasem Algharati

“It is our Spiritual nature to understand, accept and allow our human nature.”
― Maximus Freeman

“Allowance (non-judgmental, non-resistance to what Is) is a two-way street; our reaction to everyone and everything moving toward us and our reaction to our response moving forward...”
― Maximus Freeman

“If the government had been set up to guarantee a minimum subsistence allowance to all adults and children, COVID-19 would not have caused so much mayhem.”
― Steven Magee

“It is physiologically impossible to resist and relax at the same time.”
― Maximus Freeman

“I can touch your heart without your allowance and that's me.”
― Santosh Kumar

“So Michele and Stefi's friends don't receive regular pocket monty, which is a very Anglo-Saxon, puritan thing, which its obsession with system and clarity, benefits and punishments, its perverse desire to have little children learn to manage given amounts of money over given periods of time.”
― Tim Parks, An Italian Education