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Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
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Outer show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- Aesop
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
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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
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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
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
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
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible 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
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
Christian voters should start looking
at global warming and extreme poverty
as religious issues that speak to the culture of life.
- Al Franken
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
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
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
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
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
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
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
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- 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
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
Security is not the absence of danger,
but the presence of God,
no matter what the danger.
- Anonymous
Our growing softness,
our increasing lack of physical fitness,
is a menace to our security.
- John F. Kennedy
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
We will bankrupt ourselves in
the vain search for absolute security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
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