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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Grasping at the Shadow
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop [Read The Dog and the Shadow - A Fable by Aesop]
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect,
excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
- John Henry Newman
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
- Joseph Epstein
Further reading: This God Called Money
Attitude toward Gratitude
Discovery and Adventure, rather than Fear
The Shadow of Worry
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