Never…
“Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.†-Sanchita Pandey
Quotes
“the common, everyday blessings”
“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for …
Money Wisdom from Bob Marley
This is a good reminder both for people who seek after happiness by spending money AND for those of us who seek after happiness by …
Dickens on happiness and misery
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result: happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result: misery.†-Charles Dickens, …
Without frugality, none can be rich…
“Frugality is so necessary to the happiness of the world, so beneficial in its various forms to every rank of man, from the highest of …
Do not spoil what you have…
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only …
A quote for spendthrifts and savers alike
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. ~Alexandre Dumas fils, …
The bitterness of poor quality
A reader sent this to me the other day (Thanks, Emily!), and I love it passionately. So, of course I wanted to share it with …
When saving isn’t the best choice
“We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is …
Beautiful and joyful
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding …
A word from Confucius
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Socrates on contentment
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” ________________________ Today’s 365 post: girls …
On Contentment
Contentment is not a natural propensity of man. Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. We need …
Abundance and Lack
“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend… when …
Franklin and Jefferson on debt
Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries. ~Benjamin Franklin Be assured that it gives much …