Quotes About True Richness

#1. The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

Chogyam Trungpa

#2. True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

Pauli Murray

#4. No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.

Mary Doria Russell

#5. Now is as good a time as any to send up a prayer.

Elsie Hillman-Gordon

#6. The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured.

Kresley Cole

#7. I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.

Wilfred Thesiger

#8. The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

George MacKay

#9. Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

Katherine Anne Porter

#10. In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.

Joseph Lancaster

#11. We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

Albert Einstein

#12. Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Delta Burke

#13. Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

Andrew Solomon

#14. A big shot is a little shot who keeps on shooting, so keep trying.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#15. Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present ...

Jan Siegel

#16. I am my own heaven and hell!

Friedrich Schiller