“It is sad to see that, in our highly competitive and greedy world, we have lost touch with the joy of giving. We often live as if our happiness depended on having. But I don’t know anyone who is really happy because of what he or she has. True joy, happiness, and inner peace come from the giving ourselves to others. A happy life is a life for others.”
—Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
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“Material things can never wholly satisfy us. Indeed, we know from experience that every item we have desired has pleased us only for a short while. Then it became boring, and we started to desire something else.”
—St. Innocent of Alaska -
It is impossible to overcome these passions unless we can rise above attachment to food and possessions, to self-esteem and even to our very body, because it is through the body that the demons often attempt to attack us. It is essential, then, to imitate people who are in danger at sea and throw things overboard because of the violence of the winds and the threatening waves.
—Evagrios the Solitary,Texts on Discrimination in Respect of Passions and Thoughts -
“Live on one income—even if you earn two.”
—Joshua Becker -
“If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope.”
—St. Seraphim of Sarov -
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
—Epicurus -
Not only does shopping not deliver freedom, it brings the exact opposite. Each purchase we make adds extra worry to our lives. Every physical item we own represents one more thing that can be broken, scratched, or stolen.
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“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.”
—Edna Woolman Chase -
Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn’t.
—Linda EllerbeeSome of the biggest style icons of the last century were people who explicitly did not follow every new trend out there and instead had their own very distinctive looks from which they rarely strayed.
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