Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha Today is Thanksgiving Day…
A bend in the road is not the end of the road . . . unless you fail to make the turn. ~ Author Unknown Update: This article was selected for the Best of Money Carnival – 10 Things I Like about Autumn posted at Green Panda Treehouse. Thank you! Like a bend in the…
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~ Irene C. Kassorla Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Money Stories: Spending Wisely Edition posted at Sweating the Big Stuff. Thank you! Women aren’t very good…
Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can “do” drugs, “have” sex,…
I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ~ Joe Louis Update: This article was selected for the Best of Money Carnival #56 posted at Free Money Finance. Thank you! It was also included in the Carnival of Financial Planning #147 posted at The Skilled Investor. Thanks! Money, or the lack of it,…
. . . noise, in Western society, is considered a symptom of healthy economic activity. . . The opposite is the case. Noise kills, excessive input does real damage. Information overload clogs our ability to function effectively. ~ George Michelson Foy Update: This article was featured in the Money Hackers Carnival – BBQ Edition posted…
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. ~ Prince Gautama Siddharta, founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C. For those who missed the first edition of Friday Food for Thought, this is a periodic series of posts in which I write about an…
Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well; . . . and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~ James H. West Update: This article is featured in the Money Hacks Carnival #112 posted at Mrs….
