11/20

"Poor and content, is rich and rich enough;
But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter,
To him that ever fears he shall be poor." - William Shakespeare

11/15

Proverbs 22:7 "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender." KJV

11/10

"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

11/5

"We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions." - Richard Steele

10/30

"Content thyself to live obscurely good." - Joseph Addison

10/25

"Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright." - Benjamin Franklin

10/20

"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." - Lin Yutang

10/15

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." - Epicurus

10/10

Proverbs 21:20 "There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up." KJV

10/5

"To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible" - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

9/30

"It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, who is poor." - Seneca the Younger

9/25

"The desires of man increase with his acquisitions." - Samuel Johnson

9/20

"He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates

9/15

Proverbs 31:10, 14 "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies... She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar." KJV

9/10

"We are slaves of our needs; the fewer they are; they freer we are; the higher they are, the nobler the masters we serve." - John L. Spalding

9/5

Proverbs 26:13, 14 "The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed." KJV

8/30

"Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much." - Horace

8/25

"Simplicity, a thing most rare in our age." - Ovid

8/20

"We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy." - Charles Caleb Colton

8/15

"Live simply, that others may simply live." - Unknown