It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
What makes this observation sting a bit is its implicit confession: Lorimer isn't warning you *against* wanting money, but rather admitting that prosperity is a kind of forgetting machine. The phrase "check up once in a while" suggests the work required—not a one-time reckoning but a periodic audit, like you'd schedule with an accountant. A parent might realize mid-career that the comfortable house required so many evening hours away that their teenager now shares updates with friends instead of at the dinner table. The wisdom here isn't that money corrupts, but that its quiet gravitational pull can drift us from what we already possess without our noticing it.
“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh“It's not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Ayn Rand“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they...”
Will Rogers