Empoverishing Quotes & Sayings

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. — Franz Kafka

your balance sheet is an indication of how much you have served others ~ in terms of their standards, their values, their desires. Don't ever forget that happiness is relative. Your idea of what's good for someone else may not be shared in the slightest by that someone.
Understand, too, that I am not saying you ought to be considerate of others or that it is ethical to make people happy. It is a simple fact of life that if you do not make people happy, they aren't going to do business with you ~ on any basis. — Harry Browne

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules. — Herbie Hancock

Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.
'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time. — John Steinbeck

I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult. — Mark McGwire

Comparing is empoverishing our own experience. There is meaning to our suffering, if we rise above it. — Paulo Coelho