Michelle Carey > Michelle's Quotes

“We need to be careful, cautious, and deliberate in every word we say, every act we perform, and every thought that comes to mind, because it also has a programming effect on the subconscious mind, and hence on our life.”
― Pratap C. Singhal, Health, Happiness & You: Everything You Need to Know

“Selfishness provides materialism, wealth, and attachment, but at the cost of happiness. The ignorant and the naïve choose the path of selfishness and materialism, because it looks attractive: whereas spirituality is the path of altruism, higher self and lasting happiness. Only the awakened soul chooses this path.”
― Pratap C. Singhal, Health, Happiness & You: Everything You Need to Know

“You should also know that happiness cannot be linked to wealth, education, social status, or anything else. You know some poor people are happy; others sad. Some educated people are happy; others sad. Some wealthy people are happy; others sad. In other words, you see happy and sad people in all walks of life.”
― Pratap C. Singhal, Health, Happiness & You: Everything You Need to Know

“Here was another trend that had to be halted. What the bankers wanted — and what many businessmen wanted also — was to intervene in the free market and tip the balance of interest rates downward, to favor debt over thrift. To accomplish this, the money supply simply had to be disconnected from gold and made more plentiful or, as they described it, more elastic.”
― Anonymous

“After all, the way a bank makes money is to collect interest, and the only way to do that is to make loans. The more loans, the better.”
― Anonymous

“By making it appear to be a problem of the national economy rather than of private banking practice, the door then could be opened for the use of tax money rather than their own funds for paying off the losses.”
― Anonymous

“As with all cartels, it had to be created by legislation and sustained by the power of government under the deception of protecting the consumer.”
― Anonymous

“central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized,”
― Anonymous

“Actions have consequences. The consequences of wealth confiscation by the Federal-Reserve mechanism are now upon us.”
― Anonymous

“The Federal Reserve System is a legal private monopoly of the money supply operated for the benefit of the few under the guise of protecting and promoting the public interest.”
― Anonymous

“The name of the game is Bailout. As stated previously, the objective of this game is to shift the inevitable losses from the owners of the larger banks to the taxpayers.”
― Anonymous

“The game begins when the Federal Reserve System allows commercial banks to create checkbook money out of nothing.”
― Anonymous

“banks derive profit from this easy money, not by spending it, but by lending it to others and collecting interest.”
― Anonymous

“The larger the loan, the better it is, because it will produce the greatest amount of profit with the least amount of effort.”
― Anonymous

“The individual and the small businessman find it increasingly difficult to borrow money at reasonable rates, because the banks can make more money on loans to the corporate giants and to foreign governments. Also, the bigger loans are safer for the banks, because the government will make them good even if they default. There are no such guarantees for the small loans. The public will not swallow the line that bailing out the little guy is necessary to save the system. The dollar amounts are too small. Only when the figures become mind-boggling does the ploy become plausible.”
― Anonymous

“They make a profit from interest on the loan, not repayment of the loan. If a loan is paid off, the bank merely has to find another borrower, and that can be an expensive nuisance.”
― Anonymous

“If we had a truth-in-Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: "This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.”
― Anonymous

“The central fact to understanding these events is that all the money in the banking system has been created out of nothing through the process of making loans.”
― Anonymous

“DON’T LET APPEARANCES FOOL YOU”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“But don’t let appearances fool you. There’s always only one reality.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“There is always, as I said, only one reality.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do,”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Once you start lying to the public, you have to keep lying. It never ends.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“It’s not easy, either psychologically or practically, to keep tweaking the truth to make it all fit together.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“The most fundamental idea in Huna philosophy is that we each create our own personal experience of reality, by our beliefs, interpretations, actions and reactions, thoughts and feelings.”
― Serge Kahili King, Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way

“you create your own personal experience of reality through your beliefs, expectations, attitudes, desires, fears, judgements, feelings, and consistent or persistent thoughts and actions.”
― Serge Kahili King, Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way

“by changing your thinking you can change your world.”
― Serge Kahili King, Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way

“separation is only a useful illusion.”
― Serge Kahili King, Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way

“No other person can have power over you or your destiny unless you decide to let him or her have it.”
― Serge Kahili King, Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way