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May these quotes about Luxury inspire and motivate you.
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
Related topics: Values Happiness
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself,
but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean,
so must I never live my life for itself,
but always in the experience which is going on around me.
- Albert Schweitzer
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
I am Honored that Spirit has chosen to create ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
I grant myself the Honor of being ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
I have Gratitude for Everything
that has brought me to this moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I thank Spirit for EVERYTHING
that has brought me to this moment,
and entrust my entire being
to the gentle nurture of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Afraid? Me? A man who's licked
his weight in wild caterpillars?
Afraid? You bet I'm afraid!
- Groucho Marx
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
Don't threaten me with a dead fish.
- the movie Withnail & I (1987)
Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of ...
about me not listening to her, or something.
I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
- the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994)
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I am a miracle, and that's why I'm ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
- St. Francis of Assisi
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Spirit has unlimited patience,
and will wait for me to evolve.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price.
May He be so to every one of us.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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