Having nothing to lose is the new wealth.
In my own experience, including when I ask for advice, I would ask a collaborator, a friend, I also like to hear the opinion of a woman because they have such wealth. They look at things in a different way.
. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .
Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian who is unknown to me lately described me as "the richest man in the world." That sounds a pretty big order, but when I come to think it out I believe he is not far wrong. A rich man is not necessarily a man with a whole pot of money but a man who is really happy. And I am that.
The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.
To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.
I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
