Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.
– Lailah Gifty Akita
Related Quotes:
- Wealth and riches are not evil, it is having love for wealth and riches that is evil – Sunday Adelaja
- There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. – Billy Graham
- Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time. – Sunday Adelaja
- I don’t possess these thoughts I have — they possess me. I don’t possess these feelings I have — They obsess me. – Ashly Lorenzana
- All the material wealth cannot be substituted for the spiritual, physical, emotion and mental well-being. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Why are we occupied with material wealth than spiritual nourishment? – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy-”that is every man’s tragedy. – Philip Roth
- Riches are not only measured by money but the wisdom and knowledge you possess. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Leaders don’t define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man’s distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived. – Aldous Huxley
- Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Macbeth:If we should fail?Lady Macbeth:We fail?But screw your courage to the sticking place,And we’ll not fail. – William Shakespeare
- PATH TO SUCCESS: DREAM. PLAN. DO. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. ACHIEVE! IT’S A MESSY JOURNEY. – Tom Giaquinto
- You try, you fail. You try, you fail. But only when you stop trying, do you really fail.-Madam Leota – Madam Leota
- virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue. – Plato
- Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting. – Elizabeth George
- All the material wealth cannot satisfy the soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Why do men create suffering for others and fight over material wealth? Naked we come into the world, naked will go out of the world. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Wealth in money, mineral resources are not the real wealth. The true wealth of nation is the character of her people. – Sunday Adelaja
- To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- To possess time is to possess life, don’t trivialize time. – Sunday Adelaja
- Most people who possess life in reality, do not quite understand what they possess. – Sunday Adelaja
- God doesn’t NEED raw material. He MAKES material. – Matt Chandler
- The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value. – Sunday Adelaja
- The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value – Sunday Adelaja
- Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. – Orson Scott Card
- Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess, is my Freedom to Choose, my Freedom to Live, and my Freedom to be Happy. – RVM
- Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess, is my Freedom to Choose, my Freedom to Live, and my Freedom to be Happy.- RVM – RVM
- There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. – Walt Disney Company
- If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us. – Rachel Naomi Remen
- I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. – Bryant McGill
- I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. – Michel de Montaigne
- You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it. – Joseph Campbell
- Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening. – Kamand Kojouri
- Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable. – Sarvesh Jain
- It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of. – Jocelyn Murray
- This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. – Rachel Higginson
- Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy. – Daniel Prokop
- We are discouraged, when we fail to nourish the soul with its spiritual food. – Lailah Gifty Akita