“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school.
They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to
be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They
don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer.
They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's
mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They
don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
― Mother Teresa
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle
“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Hélder Câmara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
― Albert Einstein
“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
― Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
― Mother Teresa
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
“A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)”
― Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
“The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
― Mother Teresa
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle
“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Hélder Câmara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
― Albert Einstein
“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
― Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
― Mother Teresa
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
“A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)”
― Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
“The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
