The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
You see everyone wants everything, that's the way the world is. But I just might actually get it.
Jigo in Princess Mononoke
This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.
Jake Sully in Avatar -
5It's not the having, it's the getting.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
I’ve never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn’t do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
The problem with always wanting more is that the second you get it, it can always be taken away.
Harvey Specter in Suits - Season 5 Episode 2
4The tragic thing about rich people is that someone else is always richer.
If you define yourself by the power to take life, the desire to dominate, to possess... then you have nothing.
Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Rebels - Season 3 Episode 20
1Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
He who awaits much can expect little.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Wealth is a nightmare. With each coveted thing we buy, we lose a thing we dream about.
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
Michael Connelly in The Last Coyote
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.
If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.
We don't have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It's life or death.
Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.
If you go to sleep at night, you lay your head on the pillow and fall asleep. Where are you even just during this time? Nevertheless, you open your eyes again.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.
The Star Wars films are my kids. I loved them, I created them, I'm very intimately involved in them and I sold them to the white slavers.
George Lucas - about selling the Star Wars franchise to Disney
1Good is a point of view, Anakin. The Sith and the Jedi are similar in almost every way.
Go back to your books, your fireplace. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more of us valued home above gold, it would be a merrier world.
Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies
13True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey
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