Luxury Quotes - Page 18

• All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

  Romain Rolland

  Responsibility, Men, Way

  Romain Rolland (1910). “Dawn. Morning. Youth. Revolt”

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• It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Jobs, Imagination

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• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

  Seneca the Younger

  People, Simplicity, Effort

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• One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

  Mother Teresa

  Spring, Shopping, Simplicity

  "No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition".

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• To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Simple, Evil, Doubt

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.22, Vintage

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• We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Survival, Resilience

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• If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Want, No Excuses, Rich

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 07, 2017

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• Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

  Charles Lamb

  Tea, Delicacy, Sugar

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.120

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• We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

  Sharif Abdullah

  Simple, Ideas, Scarcity

  Sharif M. Abdullah (1999). “Creating a World That Works for All”, p.209, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Luxury is experiencing reality

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Reality

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• In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which get such a hold on men today. I do not say that to be a contemplative one absolutely has to go without smoking or without alcohol, but certainly one must be able to use these things without being dominated by an uncontrolled need for them.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Contemplative Life, Self

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Accomplish Nothing, Excess, Defeat

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

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• Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Girl, Knowing, Suffering

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

  Euripides

  Differences, Littles, Empty

  "Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion".

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• The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.

  Lady G

  Pronunciation, Feels, Mere

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• Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Sweet, Philosopher

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1990). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

  Livy

  Evil, Ruins, States

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• An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Age, Pleasure, Social

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli. Chapter 8, 1795.

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• To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?

  Elliott Merrick

  Hard Work, Color, Hardship

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• How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Order, Deception

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Soul

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• I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, Realizing, Ultimate

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• Luxury, by definition, means something that appears to be the best of whatever it represents. It's a word that raises people's expectations, whether talking about clothing for women or locations for people to live You pay for recognition, but probably the most important thing it represents is delivery on the promise of the brand's name.

  Isadore Sharp

  Mean, Talking, Names

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  I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

  Genghis Khan

  Beautiful, Horse, Hate

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• Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Horse, Children

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