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“It is true that wealth buys power and influence, but it does not buy morality, or kindness, or compassion. The pursuit of wealth can blind us to the fact that all of us, rich or poor, can be generous with our time, love, kindness, and compassion. Those virtues, and many more, we can all have in unlimited supply.”
― Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance
― Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance
“In the end, wisdom is born of weakness as well as strength.”
― Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance
― Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance
“As we make our journey, many of us succumb to measuring ourselves and others, by how much worldly goods we have acquired, or can acquire. The false lesson is that he or she who has the most is the best. “It is true that wealth buys power and influence, but it does not buy morality, or kindness, or compassion. The pursuit of wealth can blind us to the fact that all of us, rich or poor, can be generous with our time, love, kindness, and compassion. Those virtues, and many more, we can all have in unlimited supply.”
― Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance
― Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance
“Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times like these if one has any feeling?”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“There is love to overcome hate; generosity can diminish greed; truthfulness can reveal the lies in the same way the wind dries the flood and rains end the drought.”
― Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance
― Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance
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