Wealth

One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience.  They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer. (Philip Slater in Touchstones, 16 October)

Sometimes it may be observed that those who have had more advantages tend to be a little patronizing of others ... (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 16 October)
19 October 2012