#Poverty

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Take a rain check on poverty with Cosmic Ordering."

"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."

"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)"

"Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M"is silent."

"Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......"

"I hate the smell of success, because most of the time it smells like sweat. Maybe that’s why I’m poor, because every pore on my body is dry."

"For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God."

"I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times."

"America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty."

"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."

"In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability."

"I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all."

"It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country."

"In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves."

"Under the guise of being nice guys, the central bankers have done to the people what no army in history has been evil enough to do."

"You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."

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

"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."

"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little."