The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.
Ellen CushingTags: wealth economics class poverty americans income dissonance middle-class
[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the future, to each other--begins to disappear too.
Ellen CushingTags: future wealth class culture philanthropy charity obligation noblesse-oblige
Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.
Jon Courtenay GrimwoodAnastasia, you're going to have to learn to be rich, too, if you say yes.' He says softly. 'Wealth isn't something I've ever aspired to, Christian.' I frown. 'I know. I love that about you. But then you've never been hungry.' He says simply.
E.L. JamesTags: rich wealth hunger e-l-james fifty-shades-darker
Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: intelligence kindness compassion wealth law force diplomacy richelle solving-problems dominion richelle-goodrich clout
When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
Muhammad AliTags: love compassion wealth heart feelings
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
Muhammad AliTags: life knowledge wealth victory things
Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects, even within circumstances that seem to be limited. Love leads us to atone for our errors and clean up the mess when we've made mistakes. Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence. Love leads us to serve, to forgive, and to hope. Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.
Marianne WilliamsonTags: love wealth work charisma
For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good.
G.K. ChestertonTags: wealth good-and-evil virture
...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.
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