#Poverty

"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!"

"When she tried to seduce me, I got suspicious, thinking she was just after my massive fortune. Then I relaxed, when I remembered I'm poor."

"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."

"Poor is the man who thinks money makes him wealthy. Love is the true treasure, and the more you give away, the more you have."

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

"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)"

"Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth."

"There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success."

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

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

"Getting rid of poverty is not about making the rich more aware: it’s about educating the poor and empowering them from within."

"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."

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

"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."

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

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

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

"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."

"There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable"for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before."

"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."