Favorite Quotations ~  Luxury Inner Work

It is a luxury to be understood." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. ~ Charlie Chaplin

Every luxury has it's tax. ~ Ricky Lankford

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. ~ Hannah Arendt

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. ~ Orson Welles

Never economize on luxuries. ~ Angela Thirkell

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming. ~ Garrison Keillor

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. ~ Henry Miller

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. ~ Dalai Lama

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. ~ George Eliot