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Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life.


Piero Gheddo


#attention #christianity #compassion #empathy #giving

Pablo's many stories and reminiscences about Olga and Marie-Thérese and Dora Maar, as well as their continuing presence just offstage in our own life together, gradually made me realize that he had a kind of Bluebeard complex that made him want to cut off the heads of all women he had collected in his private museum. But he didn't cut the heads entirely off. He preferred to have life go on and to have all those women who had shared his life at one moment or another still letting out little peeps and cries of joy or pain and making a few gestures like disjointed dolls, just to prove there was some life left in them, that it hung by a thread, and that he held the other end of the thread. From time to time they would provide a humorous or dramatic or sometimes tragic side to things, and that was all grist to his mill.


Françoise Gilot


#relationships #relationship

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.


W. H. Auden


#joy #possessed #tail #times #us

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.


Gaston Bachelard


#belong #body #does #inn #morning

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.


Francis Bacon


#ever #out #possession #soul #their

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.


Felix Adler


#been #commercial #commercial world #craving #desire

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.


Louisa May Alcott


#conceit #consciousness #danger #even #finest

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.


Louisa May Alcott


#clothes #had #influence #instinct #magic

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.


Rudolf Arnheim


#adapt #american #asked #country #customs

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.


Francis of Assisi


#begging #beneath #distinctive #does #glory






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