"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects."

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

#Believe Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Economic Quotes

“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!”
“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”

Source : Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.473, Delphi Classics
“All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.”
“...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”
“The American people are tired. They're tired of the bickering in Washington, D.C., and the lack of action.”
“It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.”
“My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.”
“I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.”

You may also like:

James K. Galbraith
Economist
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
John Maynard Keynes
Economist
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Economist
Joseph Stiglitz
Economist
Karl Marx
Philosopher
Milton Friedman
Economist
Thorstein Veblen
Economist
Yanis Varoufakis
Finance Minister of Greece