#poor

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace. ↗

— Criss Jami

#content #contentment #eating #enjoyment #faith

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit! ↗

— David Kirk

#actions #comes #donkey #elements #entrance

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation. ↗

— Helmut Kohl

#christian #democrats #feel #like #made

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#any #attempt #committee #design #education

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#best #damn #dealing #escapes #life

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline. ↗

— George Lindsey

#paper #poor #saw #tell #toilet

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. ↗

— Jack London

#good #hand #holding #life #matter

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#arm #awakens #badge #between #certain

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#companies #company #doing #every #go

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#destroying #environment #fond #governments #including