“Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!” WisdomPovertyDoorsKeysBlessedSakeIslamicHardship Author:Rumi
“A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!” WantSometimesWealthPovertyDoorsArmsFineHorrorDistanceLengthSublimeMisersPersonification Author:Charles Lamb
“Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.” NeedsSleepPoorPovertyDoorsGoldBarsRejoiceGoing To Sleep Author:Robert B. Leighton
“Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.” MenPoorPovertyRichDoorsPrivilegeBlockPrizeBrat Author:George MacDonald
“There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.” MenDoeDesireWealthSleepPovertyVirtueRichDoorsLimitsSatisfactionHappySettingSettingsMiserableBeing HappyBeggarRich ManTibetanMiserable People Author:Dalai Lama