He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.
Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.
Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!
Since music is so important to me, I don't need to put in any extra effort to do this; it just flows for me. It's as simple as drinking water and having food, so definitely, music is one of the main purposes of my life.
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
People must have water, affordable, necessary water.
From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.
Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.
The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.
Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
Health is a much higher priority than computers.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
Life before toilet paper was not worth living.
