Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
Money is a measure of wealth, but not wealth itself. You cannot eat dollar bills or drink gold.
He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the true abundance of nature.
I spend my whole life in going about, persuading you not to care for your bodies or your wealth, but first and foremost to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence brings about wealth and all other goods for men, both in public and in private.
May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as a temperate man and he alone can bear and carry.
The life of money-making is a life of constraint, and wealth is clearly not the good we seek; for it is merely useful for the sake of something else.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
True wealth is a contented heart and a peaceful mind.
Accumulate wealth righteously; protect it diligently; multiply it wisely; and distribute it charitably.
You have built castles on shifting sand and forgotten the stone foundation of eternal consciousness.
Do not barter your precious gems for glass beads; invest your attention in that which never perishes.
The lion roams free in the forest, while the sheep huddles in the pen; awaken your lion-heart of spiritual courage.
Do not waste your tears on lost gold; weep only for the days you lived without love and awareness.
The true pilgrim journeys not with his feet to distant rivers, but with his mind into the depths of the heart.
When you see the Divine in the beggar, the stranger, and the enemy, your spiritual pilgrimage is complete.
Wealth is perilous; contemplate constantly that there is no lasting happiness in worldly hoarding.
Do not be proud of wealth, kin, or youth; time sweeps them away in the blink of an eye. Free yourself from illusion.
No wealth is greater than righteous virtue, and no ruin is more absolute than forgetting it. (Kural 31-32)
The wealth of a generous soul is like a village water reservoir full to the brim: it satisfies the thirst of everyone without distinction. (Kural 215)
True wealth is that which can be earned without violence and enjoyed with generosity. (Kural 754)
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