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“Once you’ve made the effort to get off of the consumer merry-go-round and focus on doing and being instead of spending and having, you will have a very strange epiphany: the constant passing parade of advertised products, services, sales, and alleged bargains will look strangely foreign. You will be fine without them.”
― Byron Tully, The Old Money Book

“Observing the seasons of the church year also helps us embrace the church’s telling of time instead of our culture’s. Our culture’s calendar is grounded in capitalism, which requires consumption.”
― Kimberlee Conway Ireton, The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year

“Is it any wonder that concerns about status and wants lead to poor financial thinking? Human desire is an unlimited and boundless ocean, a body of water that can never be filled.”
― Erik Wecks, How to Manage Your Money When You Don't Have Any

“People went around warning you: Never imagine you can change someone, for people NEVER CHANGE. Then they talked about leopards and spots. Forgetting altogether about chameleons. Or that octopus, which lives on the ocean floor and can change its shape to become a stingray, a sea anemone, or even an eel,”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, The Spell Book of Listen Taylor