#riches

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it? ↗

— Robert Jordan

#rich

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#poverty #riches #rich

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#admit #balance #both #enriches #i

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#money #riches #thrills

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#disinclined #distaste #lives #long #longevity

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#instrument #life #riches

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#condition #enlarged #enriches #horizon #human

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#country #district #i #richest #veterans

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people. ↗

— Louise Brown

#carried #crafted #found #important people #made