Try to earn your $$$$$$ before you spend them.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

Put money in it's place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However, it can't buy you peace, love, or happiness.

To fear retirement is to fear life.

Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it. First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by their jobs. Then, after they leave the work force, they become imprisoned by retirement.

The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.