Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

As long as we believe that there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable.

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

Inflation is caused by too much money chasing after too few goods.

We pay for these things too much in honour and in innocent lives.

One pays dearly for any kind of mastery on earth, where perhaps one pays too dearly for everything; one is master of one's trade at the price of also being its victim.

Oh, we talk of progress, but what we really desire is the perpetuation of the present. With its seemingly endless excesses, its ravenous appetites. Ever the same rules, ever the same game.

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life — we went soft, we lost our edge.

he who is greedy is always in want

You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something.

What happens when we start to chase what we really want: We resist doing the work that it takes to actually get it because we are so afraid of not having it, any brush with failure makes us rescind our effort and tense up. When we go so long not having what we really want, we create subconscious associations between having it and “being bad,” because we have judged others for having it. When we get it, we fear losing it so badly that we push it away from ourselves so as to not have to withstand the pain. We are so deeply enmeshed in the mental state of “wanting,” we cannot shift to a state of “having.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.