Luxury Quotes
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"There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over."
"Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress."
"You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented."
"It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use."
"Objectivity allows you the luxury of not taking sides"
"A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her."
"The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury."
"I have never been drawn to luxury. I love the simple things; coffee shops, books, and people who try to understand."
"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."
"In general, poor is polite and rich is rude."
"You know? Ain’t it ironic how we live our entire lives without the luxury of time, only to spend an eternity in death."
"Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince."
"Luxury is the enemy of growth. This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child’s mind."
Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
"Luxury is the enemy of growth."
Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
"Don’t spend your money on luxuries. Save it and secure a safe future. Don’t crave for quick satisfaction."
"To become a better you, be willing to make the needed sacrifice. Don’t spend your money on luxuries."
"Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives."
"I'd love to wake up to complete silence, white sheets, and the smell of crisp air and roses."
"In today's life, Luxury is Time and Space."
"I’ve never had the luxury of political opinions"
"This mind is continuous and ever taxing, Sleep is an endeavoring luxury for the carnivorous mind"
"It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!"
"Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- is health"
"To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one."
"If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you – your time"
"Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored."
"Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment."
"What is the point of all the money in the world if you don't have the freedom to do the things you love?"
"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
"This trespass had not come without a price. Living un-lives, material comforts and luxuries became superfluous, connection to the outside world undesirable, and power their only sustenance. But they had paid gladly, considering this “humanity” a small price for the power they now wielded; power that would sustain them far beyond the lives of mere humans and perhaps, in time, even grant them immortality."
"It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!"
"Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?"
Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
"When you stop living for luxuries you understand the real meaning of life."
"...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That is its purpose..."
"Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them."
"And yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."
"From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure"
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
"A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty"
"It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?""It's meant to be lavender.""No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money."
"Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven."
"A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor."
"Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it."
"When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise."
"I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets... Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of the truth hiding behind their endearingly smooth textures and tender soothing colours.Secrets could be so irresistibly beautiful..."
"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
"Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul"
"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."
"Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future."
"Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;Custards for supper, and an endless hostOf syllabubs and jellies and mincepies,And other such ladylike luxuries."
"It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger."
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