Poor - Quotes
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man`s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
The great moral questions of the present age are those about human rights, war, poverty, the vast disparities between rich and poor, the fact that somewhere in the third world a child dies every two and a half seconds because of starvation or remediable disease. The churches` obsessions over pre-marital sex and whether divorced couples can remarry in church appears contemptible in the light of this mountain of human suffering and need. By distracting attention from what really counts, and focusing it on the minor and anyway futile attempt to get people to conduct their personal lives only in ways the church permits, harm is done to the cause of good in the world.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Collective thinking is usually short-lived. We`re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
If TV has taught me anything, it`s that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas.
The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we`re too poor to buy our freedom.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.