This document discusses the "affluenza epidemic" in America and includes several quotes about simplifying life and living deliberately. It lists pictures with captions about different leisure activities like meditation, camping, hiking, and spending time in nature as alternatives to an unhealthy focus on money, fame, and consumption.

1. Fighting the
Affluenza
Epidemic in
America
Yishak Bililign
1/30/2015
B-Day

2. “Rather than love, than money, than
fame, give me truth.”

4. “Simplify, simplify, simplify!”

6. “My greatest skill in life has been to
want but little”

8. “Books are the treasured wealth of
the world and the fit inheritance of
generations and nations.”

10. “I find it wholesome to be alone the
greater part of the time. To be in
company, even with the best, is soon
wearisome and dissipating. I love to be
alone.”

12. “The cost of a thing is the amount of what
I will call life which is required to be
exchanged for it, immediately or in the
long run.”

14. “I went to the woods because I wished to
live deliberately, to front only the essential
facts of life, and see if I could not learn what
it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.”

16. “A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and
expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking
into which the beholder measures the depth
of his own nature.”

18. “A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated
out of doors”

20. “We do not ride on the railroad; it rides
upon us”

22. “As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder
at in them so much as the fact that so many
men could be found degraded enough to
spend their lives constructing a tomb for some
ambitious booby, whom it would have been
wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile,
and then given his body to the dogs.”

24. “The luxuriously rich are not simply kept
comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I
implied before, they are cooked, of course _à
la mode_”

26. Picture Citations
Segar, Mike. Donald Trump. Digital image. National Post. N.p., 5 May 2011. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/05/05/trump-out-as-indy-500-pace-car-driver/>.
Meditation. Digital image. Meditation Oasis. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.meditationoasis.com/>.
Work Stress. Digital image. OHAssist. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015. <http://www.ohassist.com/work-stress-
switching-off-must-mean-switching-off-your-work-phone-and-laptop/>.
Hammock. Digital image. Travel and Adventure. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015. <http://travel-n-
adventure.com/how-to-sleep-for-free/>.
McClung, Bill. Presents. Digital image. PBase. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.pbase.com/nc_bill/image/120713946>.
Olson, Scott. Salvation Army. Digital image. The Point. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://943thepoint.com/amazing-generosity-in-the-salvation-army-kettles/>.
Watching TV. Digital image. Pyschalive. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015. <http://www.psychalive.org/whats-
wrong-with-kids-watching-tv/>.
Reading. Digital image. Diabetes Partnership. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.diabetespartnership.org/camp/camper-connection---books>.
Boud, Daniel. Concert Crowd. Digital image. Getty Images. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/photo/concert-crowd-high-res-stock-photography/88953127>.
Homer, Jill. Grand Canyon Hike. Digital image. Jill Outside. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.jilloutside.com/2011/10/fall-in-grand-canyon.html>.
Nike Factory. Digital image. Phil Ebersole's Blog. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<https://philebersole.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/the-debate-over-asian-sweatshops/>.
Anti-Nike Protest. Digital image. Gizmodo. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/is-it-immoral-to-own-an-iphone-5/>.

27. Picture Citations
Time Square. Digital image. Pix. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015. <http://pixgood.com/new-york-street-with-
people.html>.
Camping. Digital image. Montegraphia. N.p., 6 June 2015. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.montegraphia.com/?tag=camping>.
Polluted Lake. Digital image. Center of Communications, Health, and the Environment. N.p., n.d. Web. 29
Jan. 2015. <http://www.ceche.org/programs/famyear/famyear.htm>.
Fishing Lake. Digital image. F.I.R.E. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015. <http://www.fire555.org/fishing-on-the-
right-side-of-the-boat/>.
Watching TV. Digital image. The Telegraph. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1546504/TV-does-not-create-couch-potato-
children.html>.
Grand Canyon Hike. Digital image. Down and Out: Hiking the Grand Canyon with Children. N.p., n.d.
Web. 29 Jan. 2015. <http://infohost.nmt.edu/~rmilner/photos/GrandCanyon2007/journal.html>.
iPhone Addicted. Digital image. Wordpress. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<https://smartypantschick.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/i-am-the-smartypants-chick-and-i-am/>.
Forest Walk. Digital image. Frogs Are Green. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://frogsaregreen.org/fathers-day-2011-7-ways-to-enjoy-nature-with-your-kids/>.
Forest. Digital image. Forest Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/nfsnc/recarea/?recid=48634>.
Joseph, Evan. Mansion. Digital image. CNBC. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
<http://www.cnbc.com/id/101500804#.>.
Log Cabin. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Jan. 2015. <http://www.tranquilacrescabins.com/tulip-
poplar-log-cabin.php>.