#weal

The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige. ↗

— Attica Locke

#humor #southern #style #wealth #money

There are just three things that you can do with Money: save, give, or invest. Somehow in here in America, with all our creativity, we have invented a fourth use for money: we can squander it ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#squander #squandering #wealth #money

Customer is king. I am his treasurer. ↗

— Toba Beta

#money #wealth #money

She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes. ↗

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

#money #wealth #money

Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses and private security forces were the secret ingredients of the so-called melting pot of southern California. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#los-angeles #melting-pots #society #southern-california #wealth

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die. ↗

— David Gemmell

#life #love #war #wealth #death

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold. ↗

— Bob Marley

#soul #wealth #wisdom #wisdom

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. ↗

— George Monbiot

#bootstraps #hard-work #wealth #dreams

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#ignorance #illness #oppression #poverty #war

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#soul #wealth #poverty