The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Interpretation
Valuable thoughts and feelings hold more significance than material wealth.
In this quote, Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of positive and warm thoughts over financial riches. It highlights the idea that emotional and intellectual richness can provide fulfillment and happiness that money cannot buy.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of mental health, one might say, 'The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money, reminding us all to cherish our mindset.'
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.
Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Meditation _x000D_ practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on _x000D_ the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your _x000D_ life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are _x000D_ capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of _x000D_ that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and _x000D_ simple.
Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?
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