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“You are not rich until you have a rich heart.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.

Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.

The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.

Dare to breach the surface and sink.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It’s not a sin to be obsessed with money, for without it, there can be no material benefits. But what about the richness of experience? The richness of knowledge or that of the inner world? These are the questions that people belonging to the present generation must ponder upon.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“Money can only get you so far; you need power and influence to go with it.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I talk. Jim runs. I tilt stones, Jim grabs the cold junk under the stones and -lickety-split! I climb hills. Jim yells off church steeples. I got a bank account. Jim’s got the hair on his head, the yell in his mouth, the shirt on his back and the tennis shoes on his feet. How come I think he’s richer?”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“The only people to whom a lifestyle comes naturally are the very rich or the exceptionally famous. Everyone else is just trying to hardscrabble an existence about which they don’t feel an unendurable level of shame.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury," was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was by definition overpriced, but was so nice, so lovely, in itself that you did not mind, in fact was so lovely that the expensiveness became part of the point, part of the distinction between the people who could not afford a thing and the select few who not only could, but also understood the desirability of paying so much for it. Arabella knew that there were thoughtlessly rich people who could afford everything; she didn't see herself as one of them but instead as one of an elite who both knew what money meant and could afford the things they wanted; and the knowledge of what money meant gave the drama of high prices a special piquancy. She loved expensive things because she knew what their expensiveness meant. She had a complete understanding of the signifiers.”
― John Lanchester, Capital

“You're only poor if you choose to be. Meaning: you can be rich in spirit, you can be rich in thought, you can be rich in talent and you can be rich in all those wonderful things.”
― Dolly Parton

“By teaching ourselves to stay connected to our sensuality, we start to install new neurological hardware that becomes a blueprint for the body to experience the richness, soulfulness, and beauty of being alive.”
― Lebo Grand

“Your dreams are the wealth of your mind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Au milieu des personnes qui vous cherchent par des intrigues et des mensonges, cherchez-vous aussi.”
― Arnaud Segla, Le Cri de la Calebasse: III. Oasis à l’orient

“On ne change que bien peu dans sa vie. On passe le clair de notre temps à lever les voiles des illusions qui nous cachent notre réalité profonde.”
― Arnaud Segla, Le Cri de la Calebasse: III. Oasis à l’orient

“En affirmation personnelle il vaut peut-être mieux être un chat qui rugit qu’un lion qui miaule.”
― Arnaud Segla, Le Cri de la Calebasse: III. Oasis à l’orient

“Quand la beauté vous saisit au cœur, le raisonnement devient une déformation de la contemplation.”
― Arnaud Segla, Le Cri de la Calebasse: III. Oasis à l’orient

“Le pas de l’être résolu vaut une année de marche de celui qui doute et regrette en quittant le confort de son illusion.”
― Arnaud Segla, Le Cri de la Calebasse: III. Oasis à l’orient

“C’est l’engagement minimal qui fait le ciment de solidarité et d’union à partir duquel les Royaumes se bâtissent.”
― Arnaud Segla, Le Cri de la Calebasse: IV. Noir Mystère

“Pendant que les savants pérorent sur le goût qu’aura la soupe, les élus suscités attisent le feu pour que le festin soit une réalité.”
― Arnaud Segla, Le Cri de la Calebasse: IV. Noir Mystère

“« Si chaque Homme fait son travail comme il se doit, il permet à ses Pairs de pouvoir aussi bien faire le leur, de sorte que toute la Création peut continuer à suivre le chemin de Dieu. »

C’est la « Roue de l’effort » qui grandit. Comme le Rouet de Gandhi.”
― Arnaud Segla, Le Cri de la Calebasse: IV. Noir Mystère

“People fight foe equality but to the first chance for domination.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“The truth is that the material world is too poor to satisfy our yearnings. This is how we end up with so many dysfunctional rich people.”
― Yanko Tsvetkov, Codex Hyperboreanus

“THE RICHEST PERSON IS NOT THE ONE WHO HAS THE MOST, BUT THE ONE WHO GIVES THE MOST”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Socrates: " All I know is that I know nothing". Paraphrase: All I know is that I have nothing and others don't even have it.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“At every moment, the poverty and richness of God and destiny are not the main reasons, hegemony and surroundings are the main reasons most of the times.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The problem for many of us is that it is easy to find rich role models. It’s harder to find wealthy ones because by definition their success is more hidden.

There are, of course, wealthy people who also spend a lot of money on stuff. But even in those cases what we see is their richness, not their wealth. We see the cars they chose to buy and perhaps the school they choose to send their kids to. We don’t see the savings, retirement accounts, or investment portfolios. We see the homes they bought, not the homes they could have bought had they stretched themselves thin.

The danger here is that I think most people, deep down, want to be wealthy. They want freedom and flexibility, which is what financial assets not yet spent can give you. But it is so ingrained in us that to have money is to spend money that we don’t get to see the restraint it takes to actually be wealthy.
And since we can’t see it, it’s hard to learn about it.
People are good at learning by imitation. But the hidden nature of wealth makes it hard to imitate others and learn from their ways.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“View the richness of life by changing the dimensions of the angle and lens.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“The strength and richness of democracy lie in the harmony of diverse voices, not the dominance of one.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“True wealth is not the abundance of possessions, but the richness of the soul”
― George Stamatis

“Question : BELOVED MASTER, SHOULD ONE TRY TO BE RICH OR NOT?

Osho : A rich life is something inner. And I am not against outer things, remember, but basically a rich life is something inner. If you are inwardly rich you can make even outer things richer by your inner light. For example, if the buddha lives in a hut, he lives in the hut as if the hut is a palace. If the buddha lives in the palace, of course he will be able to enjoy the palace more than anybody else in the world. If he can enjoy the hut as a palace, what to say about the palace itself? Wherever he is he finds ways to enjoy life.

The whole art of sannyas is to live a rich life - but the richness comes through your inner awareness. You can live a very poor life and you can be very rich outwardly; you can have a big bank balance, but you can live a dog's life.

I know very many rich people. I feel sorry for them. They have all, but they are living in such a poor way that I cannot conceive what blindness has befallen them. Can't they see their beautiful houses, their beautiful gardens? But they don't have any sensitivity. So the flowers come and go and they pass those flowers every day, but they don't see.

Otherwise a single flower is enough. And whether the flower has grown in your garden or in your neighbor's garden, who cares?

You don't possess the stars, still you can enjoy them. Or do you first have to possess them, and only then you will be able to enjoy them? You don't possess the birds in the sky, but you can enjoy them.

What you need is not more possessions. What you need is more sensitiveness, more aesthetic sensibility, more musical ears, more artistic eyes. What you need is a vision which transforms everything into something significant and meaningful.

You ask me, Asango, "Should one try to be rich or not?"

You ARE rich! You have been given already that which you need. Let it grow, and then whatsoever you have on the outside will be enough.

You can see my sannyasins living here. They have not anything really that you can call possessions, but you cannot find more happy people anywhere in the world. For no reason they are happy, there is nothing to be happy about! But something inner has started growing, something like a subtle fragrance which only people who have sensibility, sensitiveness, can feel; others can't see it.

Many people have asked me, "Why do your sannyasins look so happy?" The why cannot be answered easily, because they want to know something on the outside which is causing the happiness.

There is nothing on the outside. But still, my people are immensely happy. And they are not just sitting idly, they are working hard, and working hard for no rewards, no pay; they don't get anything. But something inner is happening; that is real richness.”
― Osho