Forum Post: WE Fight Greed !! now have a laugh and get back to IT !!

It is useless to shout to the drowning moneylender “ Give me your hand !” He does not know how to give. Instead, shout: “ Take my hand !” and he will clutch at it.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. --Thoreau

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. --Mark Twain

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. –Pliny the Younger

Much of our activity these days is nothing more than a cheap anesthetic to deaden the pain of an empty life.--Unknown

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death. --Pearl S. Buck

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. –Kierkegaard

Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.— Thoreau

There is something perverse about more than enough. When we have more, it is never enough. It is always somewhere out there, just out of reach. The more we acquire, the more elusive enough becomes. –Unknown

Possessions are usually diminished by possession. –Nietzsche

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. --Bertolt Brecht

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. --Charlie Chaplin

You cry over spilled champagne! Your complaints are not over the lack of necessities, but the abundance of benefits. You bellyache over the frills, not the basics. Over benefits not essentials. The source of your problem is your blessing. –Unknown

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. --Thoreau

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.-- Blaise Pascal

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.-- John Climacus

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance. --Malcolm Muggeridge

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. --Albert Einstein