#overt

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. ↗

— Susan Cain

#introverts #susan-cain #inspirational

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#hunger #love #poverty #stupidity #written

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. ↗

— David Baldacci

#change #civilization #detachment #journalism #mankind

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#freedom #materialism #poverty #freedom

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #god #heaven #help #kingdom

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#american #american dream #barack #barack obama #class

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#necessarily #poverty #violence

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. ↗

— Horace

#both #cultivates #envy #golden #hovel

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#poverty