luxury QUOTES

3 " Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. "

― Plato , Essential Thinkers - Socrates

4 " You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented. "

― Debasish Mridha

5 " Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

6 " What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges?

Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules.

And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action? "

― Epictetus , The Discourses

7 " After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasn’t everything that mattered in life. It was an emotion that not many had the luxury of feeling without any pain attached to it. Many say that love will set you free, but I disagree. Love is a cage, a very painful one; its gilded bars made with yearning, heartache, and unfulfilled dreams. And the moment I realized that love wasn’t necessary to one’s survival I became free. No one would have the power to hurt me again. "

― Mia Asher , Easy Virtue (Virtue, #1)

8 " Truthfulness is a luxury, perhaps the greatest, and let me assure you, the most expensive luxury in our life—and happy the man who has been able to enjoy it from his very child hood. "

― F. Max Müller , India: What it Can Teach Us

9 " A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding. "

10 " For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. "

― Audre Lorde

11 " We can give our children only two things in life which are essential. Strong roots and powerful wings. Then they may fly anywhere and live independently. Of all the luxuries in life, the greatest luxury is getting freedom of the right kind. "

― Sudha Murty

12 " The luxury to drink from the wisdom of God and ability to connect with the heavens in prayer gives birth to a desire to get the job done... "

― Stanley Kujokera

13 " Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but true happiness. "

14 " what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted "

― Cecelia Ahern , P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1)

15 " I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting without bitterness those portions we have been afforded the luxury to see. "

16 " The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols

17 " Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular. "

― Brando Skyhorse , The Madonnas of Echo Park

18 " This imaginary gift is a journey for your imagination.

I send you...
A luxury train ride. On this train are all the inspiring people you've ever wanted to meet or talk to. You glide from car to car, sitting or lying down on velvet lounge chairs, listening and asking questions. There is also a voluminous library on the train, with every book you've ever wanted to read or look at. Kind people bring you delicious tidbits to eat and nourishing liquids to drink. If you take a nap, time stands still until you return so you never miss anything. You receive a large journal filled with photographs, drawings and descriptions of your journey to take with you when you leave. You realize that you can board this train at any time. "

― S.A.R.K.

19 " Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further. "

― Julia Cameron , The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life

20 " I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs dying along the Cholula road, or to have seen the eyes of the lepers at Chiengmai gave me the right to talk about it. To have seen! To have been there! Rubbish! The world is not a book, it proves nothing. The spaces one has crossed were dark corridors with closed doors. The faces of the women to whom one gave oneself up completely: did they speak for anyone but themselves? The cities of man are secret. One walks along their streets, one sees them shine under one's feet, but one is not there, one never enters them. The dusty fields inhabited by people who are hungry, who wait patiently, are paradises of luxury and nourishment; shining at a vast distance from intelligence, at a vast distance from reason. They are not to be subjugated. "

― J.M.G. Le Clézio , The Book of Flights

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