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Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.

— Vernon Howard

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The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.

The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.

Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.

Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it.

Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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