11 quotes
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone”
— Henry David Thoreau
“If your daily life seems poor do not blame it but tell yourself that you are not rich enough to perceive its wonder”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“If your everyday life seems poor do not blame it. Blame yourself and tell yourself that you are not creative enough to call forth its riches.”
— Rilke
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life for true richness comes from within”
— Socrates
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
— Oscar Wilde
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“Not he who has much is rich but he who gives much and finds peace in giving.”
— Erich Fromm
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
“Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self”
— May Sarton
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