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Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Outer show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- Aesop
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
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Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
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
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness.
- Henry David Thoreau
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
We think sometimes that poverty is only
being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Christian voters should start looking
at global warming and extreme poverty
as religious issues that speak to the culture of life.
- Al Franken
The world is very different now.
For man holds in his mortal hands
the power to abolish all forms of human poverty,
and all forms of human life.
- John F. Kennedy
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually
there would be no wars and no poverty.
I have made myself personally responsible
for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
- Anais Nin
If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
The most intense conflicts, if overcome,
leave behind a sense of security and calm
that is not easily disturbed.
It is just these intense conflicts
and their conflagration
which are needed to produce
valuable and lasting results.
- Carl Jung
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
We will bankrupt ourselves in
the vain search for absolute security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our growing softness,
our increasing lack of physical fitness,
is a menace to our security.
- John F. Kennedy
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so,
a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
- Thomas Jefferson
Security is not the absence of danger,
but the presence of God,
no matter what the danger.
- Anonymous
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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