Quotes Tagged "poverty"

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

Whatever a man fears he will worship. If you fear poverty, you will eventually worship money.

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.

Home is where you feel safe, a place with people you can count on and where you can be yourself

When we are able to listen to someone else's story with an open heart and hear their experience, which may look different than ours, we begin to close the gap between them and us.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Espèce douée d’intelligence... Tu parles ! Faut voir ce qu’on en fait de notre gros cerveau : on sait aller sur la lune et on a le matériel pour faire sauter la planète en quelques secondes, mais la moitié de la popu- lation crève de faim et on ne peut toujours pas soigner le cancer. L’humain, c’est de la grosse saloperie.

بالا بروید پایین بیایید، اصلاً قرآن را بر سر جامعه‌ای پهن کنید، مادام که در آن جامعه در یک سو گرسنه بیچاره از سرما لرزان وجود دارد، و از سوی دیگر متنعمان برخوردار از همه چیز، این جامعه لجن است. تمام چهره‌اش را هم که با قرآن بپوشانید باز لجن است.

Perhaps it is natural for the god of the poor to be akin to the god of the dead, for there is something about poverty that smells of death

If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery; then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world

There are two ways to dehumanize: the first is to strip people of all virtue, the second is to clear them of all sin.

In the end, we can only do the best we can with who we are, paying close attention to the ways pieces of ourselves matter to the work while never losing sight of the most important questions.

It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

Money changes some people: Many a woman goes from being ashamed of being some poor or broke man’s girlfriend to being proud of being his girlfriend or even ex-girlfriend as soon as she realizes that he has become rich.

Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it.

I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.

Relationship problems are for rich people. Poor people have things like hunger, Bills, Clothes, and medicine..