Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.
I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.
Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working poor.
It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.
You may have tangible wealth untold:
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be
I had a Mother who read to me.
The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.
People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.
The rich do get richer - meaning that those who appreciate what they
have will get more. Be grateful everyday.
If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.
Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.
One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children
If you're going to do a show about somebody who dumped you, it's much richer if you have three characters dealing with different aspects of that theme. There is more space for people to identify with it.
Life is about love and experience and learning and evolving and I am richer and thankful for all of the experiences in my life.
God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.
[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.
All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.
Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.
I've had offers that could've made me much richer and much more famous than I am.
Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.
The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.
In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.
The longer they hang out, the deeper the history, the richer the life. If you use that as a template or as a way of realizing things, then I don't think you can go wrong.
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
I love sharing my travels and I've had some fascinating travelling companions over the years. I really believe travel is made the richer being with people.
People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.
A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.
The United States didn't ban Italian immigration in the 1920s because a small minority of Italians became members of the Mafia, and the country is a richer place for it.
The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.
The rich get richer until the poor get educated.
I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.
Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.
For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.
Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.
I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.
The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.
I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.
The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.
The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're better educated. They're healthier.
The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.
Missing out on some opportunity never bothers us. What's wrong with someone getting a little richer than you? It's crazy to worry about this.
Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.
I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.
With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.
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