“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.” MenShouldLongWarPhilosophyMightThreeSoundWealthPleasurePoorKnownPovertyKnowingConditionsLoversReflectionEmbraceDollarsCastsDeeperSurfaceListsThinkerQuartersRipMillionairePoor ManFlavourPleasures Of LifeVestsLove And War Book:Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)
“I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff. Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth, and I don't mean me being poor or rich, I mean knowing that 40 quid that gets spent on a pair of shoes could go a long way for a family in Georgia for a week or even a month, having experienced that, you're a bit more [guilty].” WayMeanLongDifferentStuffBitsWealthPoorKnowingRichWeekMonthsClothesShoesExtremesSillyGuiltyPairsLong WayGeorgiaPair Of ShoesSilly Things Author:Katie Melua
“The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.” PeopleMenWorldBelieveMayBeliefPoorForeverKnowingStreetsHe ManArmsCreaturesDoctrineNot KnowingUncertainWoundedPowerless Author:Phillips Brooks
“Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?” KnowsMeanSeemsAbleBornPoorKnowingConscienceIntellect Book:Pollok's Course of Time Source: Pollok's Course of Time
“That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.” KnowsNeedsFeelsImportantSelfValuesPoorMoneyKnowingAchieveFameCommitmentPursuitSelf WorthSecureDedicationTraitsDirt Author:Jennifer Hudson
“My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.” PeopleLongSufferingHumanityPoorKnowingEmpathyComplexesHonestlyPoor People Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.” ThinkingMindChildrenLittlesMadeSchoolPainRememberFacesGirlNationsRealizingForgetPoorBoysKnowingDoorsCollegeNever ForgetMexican Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Working with Jim Sheridan for instance, we did this movie Brothers. Jim will ask anybody - we'll get a delivery on set, and like the poor delivery guy will be like, "Here's your pizza," and he'll be like, "Come over here. Come here. I want to ask you a question. Do you think this is real? What do you think? Should we do another take?" And they're like, "I, uh, you want your pizza?" There's no shame in everybody's ideas. There's no shame in somebody not knowing.” ThinkingWantShouldIdeasRealGuyAsksPoorKnowingBrotherShameInstanceNot KnowingPizzaDelivery Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their alienation Then have the problem of how to help them get free, because just by your knowing that they're essentially free, that doesn't free them. Just by your being blissful, it doesn't release them from their knot of separation and false self absolutization.” FeelsSelfHelpingProblemSufferingPoorKnowingSeparationReleaseAlienationKnotsSeparateness Author:Robert Thurman
“The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.” WorldChildrenStatesKidsCausesBornLinesPoorUnitedUnited StatesKnowingEffectsChangedWalkingMetsNot KnowingBeatenUnbornChanged My Life Author:Terry Gross
“My husband had a clothing store in Paris, and I had his factory make specifically for me something similar to the one I was looking for. We made it in different colours, and decided to sell them in the store...and in a day, they were sold out! This sweater became later known as the "poor boy sweater" and it ended up making the cover of Elle magazine, and in a day, I became the "Queen of knit", without knowing anything about knitting!” MadeDifferentPoorKnownBoysKnowingHusbandDecidedSellsStoresMagazinesMade ItQueensParisColourMy HusbandClothingsFactoriesSweatersKnittingSold OutPoor BoyDifferent Colours Author:Sonia Rykiel