#overt

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#comfort #condition #every #hope #insupportable

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. ↗

— Thomas R. Kelly

#economic #god #loving #mistaken #nature

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

— Mother Teresa

#feeling #loneliness #most #poverty #terrible

Kakatwang isipin ano? Sa isang bansang uso ang fastfood, diet, at liposuction, milyon-milyon ang nagugutom. (Isn’t it funny? In a country where fastfood, diet, and liposuction are popular, millions are hungry.) ↗

— Kara David

#diet

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all. ↗

— Anneli Rufus

#artists #fashion #introverts #looks #vulnerability

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! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#heart #heartbreak #jane-eyre #love #misconceptions

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#poverty #beauty

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#social-change #change

You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#change

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#average #coming #economists #health #income